Rob Portman
Posted on 03/15/2013 7:15:53 AM PDT by IbJensen
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman is greeted by his daughter Sally, left, and son Will after finishing the Paddlefest, an annual Cincinnati event, on Saturday, June 23, 2012.
Republican Senator Rob Portman has announced his support for same-sex marriage, saying he reversed his position on the divisive social issue after his son came out as gay.
“I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married,” Portman wrote in an op-ed published Friday in the Columbus Dispatch.
“That isn’t how I’ve always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way," Portman wrote in the op-ed.
The decision came after long consideration, the Ohio lawmaker told newspapers from his home state on Thursday. Portman’s 21-year-old son Will, who is a junior at Yale University, discussed his sexual orientation with Portman and his wife in 2011, the senator said.
His son said that his sexuality was “not a choice, it was who he is and that he had been that way since he could remember,” Portman told Cleveland.com during an interview in his Washington, D.C. office.
“It allowed me to think of this 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 reporters during that interview.
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A total disgrace! I met him during the November election (I drove in from Illinois to help Romney) and at the time I thought he was one of the good guys.
I am getting to the point where I may never trust a politician again.
“saying he reversed his position on the divisive social issue after his son came out as gay”
In other words, he’s spineless and has no principles. Well, we already know he’s a politician, so I guess that goes without saying.
Portman should have resigned. He was compromised and subject to blackmail. If anything this is a DC country club disease issue.
The MSM was saving this story.
(portman should have shunned the son and cut him off)
“For I am the Lord, I do not change.”
- Malachi 3:6
Truth be known he probably is. There us no way they can perform degenerate sex unless they are high.
ok
Why doesn't he just institutionalize his kid for the good of the country instead? Why should millions of Americans defile their country because his kid decided to go queer?
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I would say yes. Both are dysfunctional and deadly in the end. What's the difference?
Portman and his wife have a homosexual relationship?
Calling it a “marriage” doesn’t make it one. You could call it a ham sandwich, but that doesn’t make it lunch.”
Losing? We lost.
Rob Portman has looked EVIL in the face and embraced it.
Well, you've heard the old saying.....The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. The kid got screwed up somewhere. (My guess is parental neglect. They weren't paying enough attention to the kid, so he went astray. He rebelled.)
That doesn't mean Portman has the right to screw up our kids and their futures.
An identity defined by an act. The best way to describe it I can think of.
Dick Cheney has grand children by his Lesbian daughter.
Of course they could play pretend husband & wife & adopt, but unless Portman has other straight kids his line dies with his gay son.
The son’s sperm could be used and therefore create aPortman grandchild.
Yes it has, and the generations coming to power over the next few decades are not on your side. I don't think you're going to succeed in convincing many young people who now think it is ok to change their mind in their 30s and 40s.
Modern America is starting to remind me of C.S. Lewis’s “The Last Battle”...
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