If he’s going to betray us on that, what’s next? Would he send a donation to Planned Parenthood if he learned his daughter had an abortion? Or, as Andrea Lafferty satirically pointed out, if one of his children were a habitual drunk driver, would he suddenly announce that drunk driving should be legalized and renounce his previous opposition? It is possible to love your children without always condoning - much less institutionalizing - their choices. Yes, it is a CHOICE. I’m willing to bet the odds are 1,000,000,000 to one that if this were 10 years ago, or 100, or 1000, the younger Mr. Portman would have quietly lived his life with the partner of his choice, probably but not necessarily a woman, without politicizing his personal bedroom activities; and his father would have loved his son without seeking to change 4 or 5 thousand years of tradition on his account. From now on we can call Mr. Portman an ex-conservative, and were he to run for office again I hope his constituents will keep that in mind.
Someone get to this guy as soon as possible and tell him he's NO LONGER A REPUBLICAN and will not get financial support for any of this.
We know the American people will not vote for Republicans if they think the party is overrun with gays ~ SEE;2006
Have you ever read the “Gay Manifesto”? Portman’s actions are right in keeping with one of the stepping stones of the gay manifesto. One of the gay’s plans was to encourage gays to “come out of the closet” to their families, then to work on their parents and families to get them to accept their homosexuality and then to use their families as advocates for acceptance of homosexuality. It has been working like a charm. A number of prominenet people, some of them Republicans and conservatives have sons or daughters who are gay, trangender etc. and they have come out to defend their children. This causes a socially difficult position within the extended family as well as their friends and colleages as it puts people in an ackward spot since they do not want to hurt the feelings of the parents.
I believe that GOProud has been using this tactic. These people have the subtlety and cleverness of the serpent. We have to find ways to counter this by standing up for our principles regardless of the emotional pressure that the gays know how to use so well.
In this regard Portman is no different than Cheney, I tend to think it’s wrong for legislators to make public laws/policy based on these personal, individual situations.