JIM Wells' claim that he made controversial remarks on same sex couples because he was under stress have been thrown into doubt after new footage emerged of him of making similar claims in 2011.
The fresh footage shows the former health minister telling a class of college pupils that homosexual acts are "sinful" and gay relationships are "equally wrong".
But he went further when he appeared to suggest that children raised by gay couples are more likely to end up "delinquent, attacking police or in crime".
It comes just weeks after Mr Wells resigned as health minister amid uproar over his comments linking child abuse to gay relationships.
He later apologised for the remarks and his party pointed to personal strain due to his wife being ill in hospital.
DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson said Mr Wells was under "incredible pressure" due to his wife's illness and knew immediately he had said the "wrong thing."
"As Jim has said, those comments were neither his view nor the view of the party. Indeed, they never will be the view of the part," Mr Robinson said last month.
However, the Irish News has seen footage of Mr Wells making equally questionable remarks to a group of South Eastern Regional College students.
The question-and-answer session was recorded in 2011 when Mr Wells was the DUP health spokesman and vice chair of the health committee.
When asked about gay marriage, Mr Wells said he believed marriage should be "between a man and a woman".
"You don't often hear of a child who has been brought up in a loving, monogamous, faithful marriage ending up delinquent or attacking the police or in crime," he said.
"All the evidence shows that children who are brought up in faithful and loving relationships are the children who are best developed to get out into society and play their role, and we must protect that at all costs."
And he added: "If you take 1,000 children that come from that model, they will inevitably do better in life than any other model, be it a live-in co-habiting relationship, be it a succession of fathers, be it a single parent, obviously apart from the widow situation, or be it a homosexual relationship."
