Posted on 03/16/2013 11:23:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Sen. Rob Portman on Friday became the first Republican in the Senate to support gay marriage—and his switch set off harsh words from many conservatives. …
Some conservatives charged that Portman’s reversal was timed with gay-marriage advocates to coincide with the Supreme Court hearings. “There is a concerted effort to pick off Republicans and make us appear divided,” Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage told NPR at CPAC. The group is trying to stop efforts to legalize gay marriage. …
Meanwhile, former Sen. Rick Santorum told Newsmax that the GOP must remain firm on its support of traditional marriage. … And Kyle Kondik, a political analyst and former Ohio resident who now works at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics in Charlottesville, predicted that Portman’s revelation may not be the last for Republicans. …
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This is not a reversal. This is Portman coming out of the closet.
Margaret Thatcher would have said to him “Don’t go wobbly” but he did
I agree. He's the GOP's version of Jim McGreevey.
The "wife and family" thing is just a political prop.
I wish he had not brought up his faith and how he thought so hard about it. Then he attached himself to the Gospels about “Loving One Another” to justify his change of heart.
Jesus also said that belief in Him would cause families to go against one another. That is because belief in Jesus requires that a person follow him and not succumb to the world’s standards. The fate of one’s eternal soul demands it.
We should pray for Portman and his son. They apparently are under the impression that they are Christians and that what they are doing is a good thing as it is “charitable to allow people to be happy”. Well, is it charitable for a father to neglect telling his son about the need for the soul’s salvation?
it is the meme of the left “christian” means “accept others walking all over you”
to the left mentioning christion is the their version of a cheat code.
An extension of this is the parable of the prodigal son. The father didn’t go out looking for the son when the kid was wasting his inheritance on debauchery; it was when the son was beaten down and chastened by his poverty that resulted from his hard living, and was humble enough to go back to his father to even say that he would be happy just as a hired employee, that the father took him back. The father’s perspective was that before, his son was dead, and after the son repented, he was alive again.
Portman is coddling his son while in the dead state, and encouraging it.
Portman is clearly in the wrong, but what we are given in the Gospel is a call to personal conversion, not an invitation to personal trashing.
Back in the good old days government ministers helped their relatives first. That's not the way it's supposed to be done these days
you mean turning your own kid into a homosexual to protect yourself from leftwingtard socio-politcal criticism? (/s)
That's something different. What you are describing is people making it a point to attack your views and beliefs.
A very un-Christian attitude. Didn't Jesus himself teach us to hate the sin, but love the sinner? Can't do that by removing them from our lives, can we? How about we just love our kids who don't necessarily live as we would prefer. We don't have to reward their behavior, just simply let them know that we don't agree with it, but we love them anyway.
Who knows, someday, they may decide that THEY don't like their behavior, and if they know that their parents still love them, regardless, they may return, repentant. Isn't that what the parable of the Prodigal Son was all about?
I think Portman thinks that if he doesn't support his son's lifestyle, his son may think he doesn't love him. Too bad he didn't make the distinction of loving the sinner, but hating the sin.
If I am not mistaken, the marriage license began as a mechanism to keep whites from marrying outside of their race.
We are all sinners.
Okay, that made me smile.
I’m sorry you’re so full of hate.
TC
Glad to see somebody else gets it.
If you can’t change the people around you, change the people around you.
Much of the world has yet to adopt it.
Previously churches served as the places to register births, deaths, marriages, etc.
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