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GOP's Rob Portman announces support for same-sex marriage
NBC News ^ | 3/15/2013 | Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; portman
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To: IbJensen

Rob Portman
41 posted on 03/15/2013 7:53:03 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: IbJensen

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.


42 posted on 03/15/2013 7:53:48 AM PDT by LovedSinner
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To: IbJensen

“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.


43 posted on 03/15/2013 7:55:34 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: pgkdan

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)


44 posted on 03/15/2013 7:59:26 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: stuartcr; Brownie63

“For I am the Lord, I do not change.”
- Malachi 3:6


45 posted on 03/15/2013 8:01:40 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: dragonblustar
"If his son was a drug addict, would Portman be in favor of that too?"

Truth be known he probably is. There us no way they can perform degenerate sex unless they are high.

46 posted on 03/15/2013 8:05:29 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: ilovesarah2012

ok


47 posted on 03/15/2013 8:06:14 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: IbJensen
Sicko. His kid is so screwed up, he wants to screw up the entire country so his kid will appear "normal."

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?

.

48 posted on 03/15/2013 8:08:42 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: dragonblustar
If his son was a drug addict, would Portman be in favor of that too?

I would say yes. Both are dysfunctional and deadly in the end. What's the difference?

49 posted on 03/15/2013 8:16:37 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: IbJensen
...to have a relationship like Jane and I have had for over 26 years.

Portman and his wife have a homosexual relationship?

50 posted on 03/15/2013 8:17:14 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: IbJensen

Calling it a “marriage” doesn’t make it one. You could call it a ham sandwich, but that doesn’t make it lunch.”


51 posted on 03/15/2013 8:19:41 AM PDT by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Losing? We lost.


52 posted on 03/15/2013 8:21:36 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: IbJensen

Rob Portman has looked EVIL in the face and embraced it.


53 posted on 03/15/2013 8:24:11 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in thee shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadows of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: clintonh8r
...to have a relationship like Jane and I have had for over 26 years.
Portman and his wife have a homosexual relationship?

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.

54 posted on 03/15/2013 8:26:17 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: DManA
Before 1900 it [homosexuality] was an act, then up until the 60’s it was a sickness, now it’s an identity.

An identity defined by an act. The best way to describe it I can think of.

55 posted on 03/15/2013 8:28:22 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Dick Cheney has grand children by his Lesbian daughter.


56 posted on 03/15/2013 8:33:36 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in thee shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadows of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: Coldwater Creek
Artificial insemination is not (yet) an option for gay men.

Of course they could play pretend husband & wife & adopt, but unless Portman has other straight kids his line dies with his gay son.

57 posted on 03/15/2013 8:38:38 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

The son’s sperm could be used and therefore create aPortman grandchild.


58 posted on 03/15/2013 8:40:47 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in thee shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadows of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: Maelstorm
The fight is not even begun.

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.

59 posted on 03/15/2013 8:41:00 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: MrB

Modern America is starting to remind me of C.S. Lewis’s “The Last Battle”...


60 posted on 03/15/2013 8:50:08 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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