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Republican senator reverses his opposition to gay marriage after his 21-year-old son comes out
Daily Mail ^ | March 15, 2013 | Katie Davies

Posted on 03/15/2013 5:04:58 AM PDT by Pinkbell

A respected Republican senator has announced he is reversing his stance against gay marriage after his 21-year-old son came out to him and his wife.

Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican considered as a running mate by the Romney campaign, said the discovery that his son Will, 21, was gay had given him a 'new perspective' and understanding of why equal opportunities matter.

Will, a junior at Yale University, came out to his politician father and mother, Jane, two years ago, The Plain Dealer reports.

Portman, who backed the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, says since his son's announcement he has been reconsidering his views on homosexuality and same-sex marriage.

He said he had spent some time speaking to his church in Cincinnati and former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose daughter is gay.

Today he wanted to officially and publicly reverse his political position on the issue.

'It allowed me to think of this issue from a new perspective, and that's of a Dad who loves his son a lot and wants him to have the same opportunities that his brother and sister would have -- to have a relationship like Jane and I have had for over 26 years,' Portman told the local paper.

'The overriding message of love and compassion that I take from the Bible, and certainly the Golden Rule, and the fact that I believe we are all created by our maker, that has all influenced me in terms of my change on this issue.'

He added that he believed opening marriage up to homosexual couples 'strengthens the institution' and he realized his son's sexuality 'wasn't a choice'.

He said his son had not exerted any influence on him politically but supported his new position and 'encouraged' him.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: fudgepac; gaymarriage; gaystapo; homofascists; homosexualagenda; portman; robportman; sodomhusseinobama
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His belief in traditional marriage could never have been on solid ground if he changed just because his son came out. He tries to use the Bible to justify this, and the Bible makes it's teachings on same sex relationships clear. If he was following the Bible, he would love his son, but he wouldn't support his lifestyle and wouldn't want to redefine marriage. This does not go over with me as I voted for him believing he was conservative on social issues.
1 posted on 03/15/2013 5:04:58 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell

In this day and age the Prodigal Son returns not in repentance but in sin.


2 posted on 03/15/2013 5:10:43 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Pinkbell

This is why he decided not to throw his hat in the primary ring last year.


3 posted on 03/15/2013 5:12:17 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Pinkbell

This deal of “coming out” that has become so popular with these kids in the past few years is, I think, suspect. In this area, at one of the high schools, the kids suddenly started “coming out” in droves, embracing and kissing in the hallways, having “sex” in the bathroom stalls (how romantic!) I expect some kids are in the future going to be embarrassed at their recent behavior; because even logical statistical numbers would have precluded there being that huge a number of “gay” kids in any one given place at one time. A fad.


4 posted on 03/15/2013 5:12:20 AM PDT by Twinkie (JOHN 3:16)
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To: Pinkbell

So he’s just another hypocrite?


5 posted on 03/15/2013 5:12:48 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: Pinkbell

It’s always the ones with homosexuals in the family that support counterfeit marriage.


6 posted on 03/15/2013 5:13:21 AM PDT by USAF80
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To: Pinkbell
So true regarding his reversal. This shows that his previous thinking was a mere political "position" rather than a "principle". Pope Francis has spoken about how the Church and the Bible view this entire manufactured by liberals 'same sex marriage' issue ...

"Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God," wrote Cardinal Bergoglio in a letter sent to the monasteries of Buenos Aires. "We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God."

7 posted on 03/15/2013 5:17:01 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Pinkbell

So if he caught he effing the family dog would he drop his opposition to beastiality?


8 posted on 03/15/2013 5:21:27 AM PDT by BO Stinkss ( I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees)
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To: Pinkbell

Even Bart Stupak didn’t change his conservative (for a democrat) position on guns when his son killed himself.


9 posted on 03/15/2013 5:22:35 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Pinkbell
He, as nearly ALL politicians today, have no Principe....they move to assure their re-Election only, and do NOT represent any values other than their own interests.

Holding Office has become only a place to sit while buying votes to KEEP that Office.

10 posted on 03/15/2013 5:24:48 AM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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Portman should change affiliation to the anti-God Party (aka DemocRAT). He is a lying certified disciple of Saran!
11 posted on 03/15/2013 5:24:56 AM PDT by texican01
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To: BO Stinkss
Good point!
12 posted on 03/15/2013 5:25:07 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: Pinkbell

He can’t be very solid on much of anything if he can’t reason his way through things like this with greater clarity than he has exhibited.

This inability to think things through is characteristic of the majority of the population today. They will blindly follow the Demagogue into totalitarianism.


13 posted on 03/15/2013 5:25:28 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: traditional1

Principe=Principle. (More coffee needed here)


14 posted on 03/15/2013 5:25:46 AM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: Pinkbell

The reason people are sick of the GOP is because they have no moral compass.

They have no convictions. They are not trustworthy.

Had he not thought of the parents of gay children, before he made a stand?

In what , was his opinion of gay marriage based, in the first place?

More “good for me, but not for thee”.


15 posted on 03/15/2013 5:26:36 AM PDT by Truth2012
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To: Pinkbell

I swear these people are in on some giant conspiracy to destroy America. The dam is breaking and there is no stopping it.


16 posted on 03/15/2013 5:27:31 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Houghton M.

The media will now celebrate him as a hero, and that will only reaffirm his position.


17 posted on 03/15/2013 5:28:46 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Truth2012
Had he not thought of the parents of gay children, before he made a stand?

In what , was his opinion of gay marriage based, in the first place? More “good for me, but not for thee”.

Exactly.

18 posted on 03/15/2013 5:30:25 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Hostage

This is insane!
It’s like saying I’ve changed my position on cancer since I found out my brother has it.
Damn it when will people wake up!
He needs to say “son, I love you and always will, but I will not approve of activity that God Almighty has condemned.”


19 posted on 03/15/2013 5:32:13 AM PDT by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: texican01; al baby; Jim Robinson

:: He is a lying certified disciple of Saran! ::

Looks like another malaprop headed for history at FR!


20 posted on 03/15/2013 5:32:28 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (*Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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