DEVELOPING STORY: Anti-Gay GOP McCollum Confronted About Gay Dad Campaign Advisor

[Ian David]

Candidate for Florida Governor and current Florida Attorney General was confronted by reporters on the contradiction of questioning the moral character and fitness of gay people to parent while having a gay parent as his political advisor.

The media deluge comes a day after McCollum called for a ban on gay people being foster parents. Florida is the only state with a law banning gay people from applying to adopt.
That law was declared unconstitutional by a Miami judge and McCollum has lead the fight to appeal the ruling. The case is expected to reach the Florida Supreme Court.


Here is the rough translation of audio .
More details to follow:

Press asking questions: Caputo, Bousquet, Deslatte, unidentified reporter


rough transcript:


Caputo: "...you said homosexuals should not be guiding our children. You have had a homosexual who has guided your political career for a while, Harvey Finkelstein, and I was wondering if you could comment on what you said there and the fact that your advisor is a gay man, I think he is married to another man and he has I believe adopted kids, if not foster kids.


McCollum: "Well what I said was that we have a case going on right now on gay adoption that we're handling that's carrying a constitutional question to the state Supreme Court. And the question was whether or not this is consistent with foster care where we do have provisions allowing for gays to have children in their home in foster care and I said I didn't think that was consistent. I'm not making any pronouncements other than a comment until we see what happens with the Supreme Court ruling on this case which will take some months to interpret."



More:
http://eqfl.blogspot.com/2010/08/developing-story-anti-gay-gop-mccollum.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eqfl+%28Equality+Florida+Blog%29&utm_content=Twitter

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/cindyscott54/status/20810953715

[rocktivity]

1. Wow, my OWN tongue got tangled

reading that answer!

At any rate--whoops!

:rofl:
rocktivity

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Another question...How does Havrey Finkelstein live with himself.

[qb]

3. Damn. Being a bigoted hypocrite can get complicated!

[Dr.Phool]

4. I don't know what it is, but

There's something about McCollum that just screams "closeted gay" everytime I look at him.

We alrady know he's a major hypocrite.

[mitchtv]

6. couldn't get in the club

looks too much like Howdy Doody, and not in a cute way

[yellowcanine]

5. "I can't decide if I am a bigoted A-hole untill I hear what the SCOTUS says."

"And even then it might take some months for me to make a firm judgment on that."

Good news McCollum! We don't have to wait for the SCOTUS. We already know you are a bigoted A-hole.