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Rob Portman, Gay Marriage, and Selfishness
New York Magazine ^ | 3/16/2013 | Jonathan Chait

Posted on 03/15/2013 2:45:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: GeronL
It is more loving to tell your child they are wrong than to support their bad choices

Thank you. Yes it is. I remember Bill Cosby once saying that if your child doesn't, at some point in their childhood, hate you; you are not doing your job.

I did my job; and, those times when I had to say no, or I had to step in and discipline them for something they had done were hard things to do. I love my children. But, they needed to learn that they can't just do anything, or have everything.

21 posted on 03/15/2013 3:34:45 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Ann Archy

I want to see people publicly ask idiots like this what other sex practices deserve governmental legislation/acceptance? Why should a Homosexual get special recognition and not a hetro foot fetishist or someone into BDSM?

That is a serious question that when answered, would show the utter stupidity of the situation.


22 posted on 03/15/2013 3:35:27 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Hey....why not THREE people MARRIED??? Why not marry your DOG or CAT??? Really....Portman is DEAD to me....I always thought he was kind of EFFEMINATE but I liked him.....ugh....he;s just like a DEMOCRAT!!


23 posted on 03/15/2013 3:37:29 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: River Hawk

Is there a plague of homosexuality going on, or is the culture turning otherwise normal kids into homosexuals?


24 posted on 03/15/2013 3:42:57 PM PDT by Clock King
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To: Ann Archy

Amazing huh?

When one supports the same issues as a Democrat, one IS a democrat. It’s one thing to say I think we should support green power (a dem issue). That can be argued as conservative or not. But Homosexualizing the country is no little issue. It’s 100% dem and a foundational one of humanity.

He and most of the GOP are in reality Dems. And people who support Dems and Dem issues ARE dems. Regardless of what they call themselves on the internet.


25 posted on 03/15/2013 3:43:28 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Pollster1
Has he considered the relative importance of his son’s short term “happiness” and his son’s salvation?

Exactly.
Basically the message is, 'Your soul is worthless to me. I'd rather have the accolades of the world that will commend my tolerance, and a smile from my son today -- even though an eternity in hell awaits the unrepentant sinner.'

That is not love, it is the epitome of selfishness and hate for lost souls.

26 posted on 03/15/2013 3:44:32 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: sagar
A Painful Admission

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Traditional Values Coalition president Andrea Lafferty issued the following statement in reaction to Ohio Senator Rob Portman's recent repudiation of his stance against gay marriage in reaction to his son's homosexual preferences: These past few days have been very painful ones for me.

Earlier this week one of my children came to me and told me something which was shocking.

He is a drunk driver and has been driving drunk regularly since college.

I have taken several days to reflect on this and I have decided to reverse my earlier opposition to drunk driving.

My child is a drunk driver and I love him. It is a part of his identity, who he is.

I have reflected on all of this, consulted Scripture (the story of Jesus changing water into wine when the wedding he was attending in Cana ran dry is particularly relevant) and decided that drunk driving is a generational issue. Younger people take a much different view of drunk driving than older people.

Therefore, today I am reversing my opposition to drunk driving. My child has caused me to revisit a decision which, up until now, had been based simply on morality.
(snip)

http://traditionalvalues.org/content/home/36644/a_painful_admission

27 posted on 03/15/2013 3:45:28 PM PDT by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: nickcarraway

All of these politicans grasping for votes overlook the fact that this is perversion. It is unnatural! They don’t seem to care that they are exposing the people to something that is not normal.


28 posted on 03/15/2013 3:46:25 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: Norm Lenhart

DISGUSTING! Rob Portman is DISGUSTING!!! WHo the HELL wants to know that his son is a QUEER doing ABNORMAL, IMMORAL ACTS to ANOTHER GUY???????DISGUSTING....


29 posted on 03/15/2013 3:47:08 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: donna

Excellent!


30 posted on 03/15/2013 3:47:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

Good bye, Rob. May God have mercy on your soul.


31 posted on 03/15/2013 3:51:43 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Ann Archy

Just remember the disgust you feel right at this second the next time you see a fellow Freeper say we have to vote for moderates to win. Because THIS is what we ‘win’.


32 posted on 03/15/2013 3:53:45 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Ann Archy
Hey....why not THREE people MARRIED??? Why not marry your DOG or CAT???

Why not a sixteen-year-old, or a ten-year-old?

If Portman's son was "born" a pedophile, then wouldn't it be only loving and fatherly to wish the son to find happiness with some sweet, obliging teen (which, in keeping with most of the 'gays' I know, Portman's son probably already has,if only while he himself was a teen)?

Speaking of which. Every male homosexual I know has issues with his daddy--he was mean, he was cold, he just wasn't there, etc. etc.

And every homosexual woman I know loathes, or at least at one time loathed, her mother--couldn't please her, couldn't measure up, and so on.

Obviously I don't know all the homos in the world. But through work and simply life I have known and, frankly, befriended a bunch of them.

My hunch is that Portman is NOT only finding his inner gay parentalness...he also has a closet-full of guilt over being a piss-poor dad.

33 posted on 03/15/2013 3:55:34 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: nickcarraway

When will he be announcing his resignation?


34 posted on 03/15/2013 4:07:25 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m sure his constituents voted for and wished to represented by his Gay Son.

That kid is a hell of a campaigner

TT


35 posted on 03/15/2013 4:13:29 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Bingo....or Rob is LIMP wristed himself!!!


36 posted on 03/15/2013 4:14:08 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: Fightin Whitey
And every homosexual woman I know loathes, or at least at one time loathed, her mother--couldn't please her, couldn't measure up, and so on.

Or had a domineering mother and an uninvolved/absent dad who didn't 'protect' her from an abusive mother.

37 posted on 03/15/2013 4:18:51 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: nickcarraway

All along he has said his faith is why he was against gay marriage. So, obviously he lost his faith. But the truth of the matter is he looks and acts a little light in the loafers himself.


38 posted on 03/15/2013 4:24:28 PM PDT by Terry Mross (How long before America is gone?)
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To: nickcarraway

When a child is not restrained by moral or ethical principles there is a real threat of blackmail such as a family tell all book. Not something a public figure wants to see happen.


39 posted on 03/15/2013 4:38:37 PM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: nickcarraway

Portman was a solid pro-life, pro-gun, pro-marriage type congressman here in Ohio’s 2d district. He NEVER would have been elected if he hadn’t been absolutely conservative.

My own sense is that the gay son story doesn’t wash. There’s truth and there’s familial good feelings.

He’s saying that truth changes to accommodate good feelings.

Next thing we know he’ll be “weeping George Voinovich” talking about being a democrat.

Moreover, I would say that he is sentencing his son to death. Truly sad that conservatives love his son more than the boy’s own dad does.


40 posted on 03/15/2013 4:53:18 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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