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Stunner: Sen. Rob Portman backs same-sex marriage

Posted on March 15th, 2013 at 8:27 by John Sinteur in category: News -- Write a comment

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Sen. Rob Portman says he now supports same-sex marriage because one of his sons is gay.

The Ohio Republican informed reporters from several newspapers in his home state of his reversal, which The Columbus Dispatch calls “stunning.”

Portman told The Cincinnati Enquirer his evolution on the subject began in 2011 when his son, Will, then a freshman at Yale University, told his parents he was gay.

  1. And now he gets to nag his son by saying, “So… When’re you going to meet some nice boy and settle down?”

  2. Y’know, I’m tired of people who only realize that x group has rights because someone in their family is in x group…

  3. You know, if only a son of a R Senator came out poor…

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