One day after stating that gay people should be banned from foster parenting, Florida Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum tried to back away from his statements.

This is the latest twist in the scandal involving McCollum giving $120,000 to discredited witness George Rekers, who was later caught with a male escort he’d hired on rentboy.com as the pair returned from a European vacation.

Nadine Smith of Equality Florida has done an amazing job staying on top of this story.

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