Rouson apologizes for anti-gay remarks

August 5, 2008 at 11:35 am by Wayne Garcia

Faced with growing attention from human rights groups that had been circulating a video of him calling homosexuality “morally wrong,” state Rep. Darryl Rouson last night apologized for his earlier stance, taken when he was a Republican lawyer and not an incumbent Democratic state representative in a primary fight to keep his job.

According to tampabay.com:

“Sometimes we become educated and evolve,” he said during a St. Petersburg NAACP candidate forum. “I have evolved.”

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