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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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'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.

Who's stopping him from marrying a woman?

87 posted on 03/15/2013 7:26:40 AM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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Ah, there is another good man of principle... not.

You are correct, he can still love the son but not the action.


89 posted on 03/15/2013 7:27:46 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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Very disappointing... I’ve always liked the guy. Thought he would have been a smart choice for VP. So, don’t feel like you’re the only one fooled.

You either believe in marriage, or you don’t. NOTHING my two sons could ever do or say or think they are changes my opinion about the institution defined by God.

This will hurt Republicans badly. As someone else said, Portman will now be invited on to EVERY lib TV show... and, they use to say we’re ALL hypocrits.


93 posted on 03/15/2013 7:34:41 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them)
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If Portmans father was gay he wouldn't exist. Therefore his son is gay so his grandchildren
will never exist. Marriage is about procreation, not sexual perversion. He should resign immediately in support of fags.
95 posted on 03/15/2013 7:39:02 AM PDT by MaxMax
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'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.'

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"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" - Romans 6:1-2

Portman does his son no favors by condoning behavior that God expressly names as abomination.

99 posted on 03/15/2013 7:55:33 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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He is lecturing us about the Bible??

He is a total disgrace as a Senator to use the Bible as evidence for promoting a degenerate lifestyle.


100 posted on 03/15/2013 7:55:38 AM PDT by LovedSinner
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Whenever Libs try and hit with their psycho babble concerning homosexuality; about it being a beautiful, loving, caring union between two men, I reply with one word:

SODOMY!

It will never be normal; it will never be beautiful; it will never be loving! It is a perversion of the highest order, and I will never join the chorus in celebrating this sick practice. I'll leave that for Holly-weird and the Politically Correct among us.

104 posted on 03/15/2013 8:24:10 AM PDT by Artcore
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“wasn’t a choice”?

he should ask who molested his son.


105 posted on 03/15/2013 8:27:08 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Love the sinner, hate the sin. That’s what it boils down to.


106 posted on 03/15/2013 8:39:14 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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Portman, traitor to the nation.

If he wants to stab AMerica in the back, he should have switched parties to the Demmunists first.

115 posted on 03/15/2013 9:39:09 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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sadly, the homosexual abnormality doesn't lend itself to "long" happy "marriages....

they are not like heteros....their drives are different...although, I'm sure one could find life long partners, but they are the exception not the rule, IMO anyway...

just let them marry though...let them pay the marriage penalty....let them have the same responsibilities as real married people...like having to pay bills for each other, etc...

since "marriage" is not really "marriage" anymore, I predict that as a govt sanctioned institute, it will die a slow death....

it'll be up to the Churches to have marriages.......maybe it should have been that way from the start...

118 posted on 03/15/2013 10:18:44 AM PDT by cherry
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We’re not praying for our leaders as we should, which is why stuff like this happens.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2997255/posts


131 posted on 03/15/2013 11:51:56 AM PDT by ROTB (Live holy, forgive all & pray in Jesus' name. Trust He is willing & able & eager to ANSWER BIG!)
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So Portman’s message to us is that a universal human institution, known from the beginning of time as reckoned in human terms, now has to change because his little boy is queer!

R-i-i-i-i-ght ... you got it, Robbie.


132 posted on 03/15/2013 11:52:51 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
 
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
 
The first stage being "demoralization".
 
It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.
 
Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.  Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science.  Members of parliament, representatives of business circles. 
 
Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups:  those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation;  [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution.  "
--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov
--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2095202/posts
 
Are we there yet?

135 posted on 03/15/2013 6:47:46 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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Portman’s read on the Constitution depends on what his kid does. Better keep an eye on what Will’s up to, that will determine his vote!!


139 posted on 03/15/2013 9:04:20 PM PDT by Steelers6
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The Bible ‘converts’ never seem to be willing to explain how/why ‘man’ was created such as he is physically and that ‘woman’ was created as she is physically. Indeed such a difference is not a unique characteristic of/to life. My difficulty with such attitudes is that these want to make/place everyone in an identical moral and existent human framework.


141 posted on 03/15/2013 10:35:21 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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*****A respected Republican senator...*****

When an article begins with a statement like this - you know what’s coming...........


142 posted on 03/16/2013 4:12:52 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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“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.”

What penalty does the Bible prescribe for homosexuality and disobedient children? Aren’t you being a bit soft?


147 posted on 03/16/2013 2:57:08 PM PDT by Skylab
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So this guy never cared enough to contemplate why God thinks homosexual behavior is wrong.

Either that or he is just a coward who is a afraid to have a heart-to-heart talk with his son.


150 posted on 03/16/2013 5:35:17 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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Spot on. His original stance was a fake. Nobody who believed in marriage would change like that.


151 posted on 03/16/2013 8:06:05 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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