That's the thing.... it's pretty difficult to know what is the truth and what isn't about this guy.
I'd say that the wife and kids thing was staged to make him look more conservative than he really is. That's just my guess. If he was really that conservative, they would have been trying to make him look more moderate.
The first thing to do is read more than the headlines.
It appears that all some people need is to see the words 'homosexual' and 'Roberts' in the same sentence, and they go off.