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| "Look traditional marriage must be protected. What? My son's gay? Never mind." |
Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman on Thursday announced he has reversed his longtime opposition to same-sex marriage after reconsidering the issue because his 21-year-old son, Will, is gay.
Portman said his son, a junior at Yale University, told him and his wife, Jane, that he's gay and "it was not a choice, it was who he is and that he had been that way since he could remember."
"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 reporters in an interview at his office.
Okay not to take anything away from this Senator's change of heart, but not everybody can be fortunate enough to have a gay son or daughter in their life, so perhaps he needs to explain to his more hard line party members that this is an issue of freedom, and that allowing these couples to get married will help preserve the institution of marriage, not destroy it.
By the way, for the record, I was for equality and gay rights well BEFORE I had a daughter who needed her Daddy to stand up for her.
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