Birds of a feather, as they say. I once wrote about Adams in the context of his promoting a political crony who had traveled to Africa and praised local efforts to imprison gay people and even sentence us to death. When queer communities in NYC screamed in protest, Adams told them (essentially) to suck eggs.

So am I shocked that he's in favor of further marginalizing and even persecuting members of racial and ethnic minorities?

Hardly. When somebody shows you who they are, believe them. To quote a Black woman.