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Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who was on Mitt Romney’s short list as a potential vice presidential nominee in 2012, has reversed his long-held position opposing same-sex marriage, he wrote in a column published today in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
“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.
Two years ago, he said, his son Will, then a freshman at Yale University, told Portman and his wife, Jane, that he was gay.
“I wrestled with how to reconcile my Christian faith with my desire for Will to have the same opportunities to pursue happiness and fulfillment as his brother and sister,” Portman wrote. “Ultimately, it came down to the Bible’s overarching themes of love and compassion and my belief that we are all children of God.”
As a U.S. House member, Portman voted for the Defense of Marriage Act -- the 1996 law that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman -- and a 1999 bill to prohibit same- sex couples in the District of Columbia from adopting. He also supported the idea of a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-03-15/republican-senator-portman-now-backs-same-sex-marriage
The train is picking up steam. In 30 years, they'll be performing same sex marriage in Hattiesburg and Salt Lake City and everyone will be wondering what all the fuss was about.
Originally posted by sh76It's all fun and games begin a hard-line conservative until -- uh-oh -- you find that your Stone Age rock-throwing is hurting your own family members. Little changes the lizard brain's tune faster than that! (Just look at Dick Cheney and his lesbian daughter for another example.)
[quote]Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who was on Mitt Romney’s short list as a potential vice presidential nominee in 2012, has reversed his long-held position opposing same-sex marriage, he wrote in a column published today in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
“I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love ...[text shortened]... e in Hattiesburg and Salt Lake City and everyone will be wondering what all the fuss was about.
Conservatives: always hating The Other until they learn The Other is them.
Originally posted by sh76In thirty years perhaps nobody will want to get married.
[quote]Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who was on Mitt Romney’s short list as a potential vice presidential nominee in 2012, has reversed his long-held position opposing same-sex marriage, he wrote in a column published today in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
“I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love ...[text shortened]... e in Hattiesburg and Salt Lake City and everyone will be wondering what all the fuss was about.
Originally posted by sh76Indeed, it is has been a very fast-changing issue.
[quote]Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who was on Mitt Romney’s short list as a potential vice presidential nominee in 2012, has reversed his long-held position opposing same-sex marriage, he wrote in a column published today in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
“I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love ...[text shortened]... e in Hattiesburg and Salt Lake City and everyone will be wondering what all the fuss was about.
Originally posted by sh76Shhhhhh...CPAC will hang the "closet liberal" sign on you!
[quote]Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who was on Mitt Romney’s short list as a potential vice presidential nominee in 2012, has reversed his long-held position opposing same-sex marriage, he wrote in a column published today in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
“I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love ...[text shortened]... e in Hattiesburg and Salt Lake City and everyone will be wondering what all the fuss was about.
Originally posted by bill718I'm a liberal on social issues, except when it comes to law and order, whereon I'm generally a moderate to moderate conservative.
Shhhhhh...CPAC will hang the "closet liberal" sign on you!
What's more, I think that fiscal conservatives really ought to be social liberals if they really are consistent on the reasons for fiscal neoliberalism.
Originally posted by JS357Less than half of marriages stay married long term. I doubt that adding "gay" to the nomenclature will improve the odds.
...which will restore marriage to its original place in society.
I would suggest a Constitutional amendment which prohibits favoritism or privilege based on marital status, and which removes all current references to marriage in current code. It might not even be necessary, as the 1st amendment prohibits Congress from the "establishment of a religion". Could it be argued that by extending tax benefits and other privileges to those married (a religious event) that Congress has established a religion?
Securing that, gay or straight would be moot.
Originally posted by sh76Generally that is libertarianism.
I'm a liberal on social issues, except when it comes to law and order, whereon I'm generally a moderate to moderate conservative.
What's more, I think that fiscal conservatives really ought to be social liberals if they really are consistent on the reasons for fiscal neoliberalism.