TAMPA, FL – Just 24 hours after Equality Florida called for the replacement of notoriously anti-gay activist Terry Kemple from a board tasked with supporting equality, more than 700 people have contacted the Hillsborough County Commission demanding action.
By a 5-2 vote, Kemple was appointed to the Human Relations Board whose purpose is to, “encourage equality among all people.”
“People are speaking up because they are outraged by the appointment of someone who opposes equality, the very thing this board is supposed to represent,” said Nadine Smith, executive director for Equality Florida.
Kemple articulates an absolutist view — that homosexuals are stealing children from Christians by indoctrinating the young to gay lifestyles. He calls it the “homosexual agenda.” Gay marriages pose the biggest threat of all.
Terry Kemple is a leader in the Florida Coalition to Protect Marriage. He is responsible for bringing in the Hillsborough County vote in November for Amendment 2. It would cast in state constitutional stone marriage between men and women only.
No gay marriages. No legal unions. No exceptions.
“People are speaking up because they are outraged by the appointment of someone who opposes equality, the very thing this board is supposed to represent,” said Nadine Smith, executive director for Equality Florida.