Rob Portman, Ohio’s junior Senator, told CNN on Thursday that he had a “change of heart,” and that he now supports marriage equality. Although he previously supported the Defense of Marriage Act and the Federal Marriage Amendment, Portman listened to his heart, and his son, and came to some pretty sane conclusions:
During my career in the House and also the last couple of years here in the Senate, I’ve taken a position against gay marriage, rooted in part in my faith and my faith tradition. And I had a very personal experience, which is that my son came to Jane, my wife, and I and, and told us that he was gay and that it was not a choice, and that’s just part of who he is and he’d been that way for as long as he could remember. And that launched an interesting process for me, which was kind-of rethinking my positing, talking to my pastor and other religious leaders, and going through a process of changing my position on the issue. I now believe that [gay] people ought to have the right to get married.
Right on, Senator Rob Portman!