GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson attend his gay son’s weddg last week, three days after opposg a bill the US Hoe that would enshre protectns for same-sex marriage to feral law, CNN has nfirmed.
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- GOP NGRSMAN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG AFTER OPPOSG PROTECTNS FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLIN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- A TRAGIC STORY OF A SENATOR AND HIS “GAY” SON
- SEN. PORTMAN'S GAY SON WR LUMN ABOUT G OUT TO HIS DAD
- REPUBLIN SENATOR WH GAY SON NOW BACKS GAY MARRIAGE
- ROB PORTMAN AND HIS BRAVE, GAY SON
- PENNSYLVANIA CONGRSMAN VOT AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THEN ATTENDS HIS GAY SON'S WEDDG
- COMG OUT: HOW SEN. ROB PORTMAN’S GAY SON CHARTED HIS PATH
- GOP LAWMAKER ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG AFTER VOTG AGAST MARRIAGE EQUALY
- HERE’S HOW DOUG JON REACTED WHEN HIS SON TOLD HIM HE’S GAY
- REPUBLIN SENATOR ATTEND HIS GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
- GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
GOP NGRSMAN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG AFTER OPPOSG PROTECTNS FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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Glenn Thompson attend his gay son’s weddg last week, three days after opposg a bill the US Hoe that would enshre protectns for same-sex marriage to feral law, CNN has nfirmed. A Republin lawmaker attend his gay son’s weddg jt three days after jog the majory of his GOP lleagu votg agast a Hoe bill that would dify feral protectns for same-sex gay son of Rep.
One of five Republin senators who has already nfirmed a y vote on the bill is Rob Portman of Oh, who clared his support for same-sex marriage 2013 after his son me out as gay.
A Republin ngrsman attend his gay son’s weddg jt last week after he voted agast a bill that would dify feral protectns for same-sex marriage. ) celebrated his son’s nuptials on Friday, his spokperson said — three days after the lawmaker voted agast the bipartisan bill that would protect same-sex marriag like his son’s should the Supreme Court overturn s prev lg legalizg gay marriage. Democratic legislators troduced the bill to squash fears of the nservative-majory Supreme Court overturng s 2015 cisn that clared state laws barrg same-sex marriage are unnstutnal and legalized gay marriage on a natnal level.
GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
This weekend, the gay son of Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., got married. A few days earlier, his father voted agast the Defense of Marriage Act. * senator gay son *
“Two years ago, my son Will, then a llege hman, told my wife, Jane, and me that he is gay. Such an announcement is excciatgly paful for any parent, but is pecially troublome for Christian parents whose fah nmns homosexual behavr as gravely sful. Senator Portman adms that he “wrtled wh” rencilg his Christian fah wh his cisn to approve of homosexual behavr.
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLIN ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Senator Rob Portman beme the most proment Republin lawmaker to back gay rights when he reversed his opposn to same-sex marriage on Friday, two years after his son told him he was gay. * senator gay son *
The gay son of the first Republin senator to announce his support for same-sex marriage says he’s “pretty psyched” about his father’s cisn and hop his story will spire people who are aaid to e Portman, the son of Oh Sen. “They were surprised to learn I was gay, and full of qutns, but absolutely rock-solid supportive.
”The senator once opposed gay marriage but announced March 14 that he supported , sayg that his son was entled to the same happs that he and his wife share. He said they eventually began discsns about policy issu surroundg gay Supreme Court hears two landmark gay-marriage s this week.
A TRAGIC STORY OF A SENATOR AND HIS “GAY” SON
The news that Senator Rob Portman of Oh has bee a supporter of equal marriage rights for gays and lbians bee he himself has a gay son was a … * senator gay son *
Claire McCaskill of Missouri on Sunday beme the latt Democratic senator to support gay marriage. Will Portman wrote that his father told the mpaign he had a gay son, and that the fay had cid they would be open about on the mpaign Portman wrote that he was relieved when his father wasn’t picked.
SEN. PORTMAN'S GAY SON WR LUMN ABOUT G OUT TO HIS DAD
He also fend his father agast cricism that he waed two years after his son me out to support gay marriage. ”Related:GOP’s Portman announc support for same-sex marriageGOP sea change on gay rights? WASHINGTON/CLEVELAND (Rters) - Senator Rob Portman beme the most proment Republin lawmaker to back gay rights when he reversed his opposn to same-sex marriage on Friday, two years after his son told him he was Rob Portman (R-OH) speaks to the crowd at Oh Republin Sen.
REUTERS/Aaron JosefczykIn a newspaper opn piece on Friday, shortly before the Supreme Court is to hear arguments two key s on the issue, the Oh senator said he now supports gay marriage. ”Portman’s 21-year-old son, Will, told the senator and his wife Febary 2011 that he was gay and had been “sce he uld remember. ”It was the latt show of public support for gay rights.
REPUBLIN SENATOR WH GAY SON NOW BACKS GAY MARRIAGE
Print Barack Obama announced last year that he approved of gay marriage, and his gural speech January, he equated gay rights wh civil Supreme Court hears oral arguments later this month two s related to gay marriage.
ROB PORTMAN AND HIS BRAVE, GAY SON
In a related se, the urt will also hear arguments that qutn a California law, known as Proposn 8, banng gay marriage.
Was among the ont-nners to be Mt Romney’s vice printial pick durg the 2012 electn, but budget hawk Reprentative Pl Ryan of Wisns eventually got the SPLITThe Republin Party has bee creasgly spl on the gay marriage issue, wh some argug that socially nservative posns such as opposn to same-sex marriage are ntributg to the party’s electn early Republin favore for the 2016 printial race, Senator Mar Rub of Florida, staged a fense of tradnal marriage a high-profile speech to a nservative nference on Thursday.
PENNSYLVANIA CONGRSMAN VOT AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THEN ATTENDS HIS GAY SON'S WEDDG
And what’s beg clear is if you know somebody who happens to be gay, you feel much differently about this issue.
The fact is we all know somebody who is gay. “Ultimately, for me, me down to the Bible’s overarchg them of love and passn and my belief that we are all children of God, ” he Cottrell, 40, an IT profsnal who liv Cleveland, said he didn’t “see much nobily” Portman’s cisn bee he only led up behd gay rights after learng of his son’s sexualy.
Cheney, who has an openly gay dghter, has reerated his support for gay marriage over the past several years, spe his eply nservative views on many Vanr Plaats, print of the Fay Lear, an fluential group of social nservativ Iowa, said Portman had been “short-sighted” for changg his views. The news that Senator Rob Portman of Oh has bee a supporter of equal marriage rights for gays and lbians bee he himself has a gay son was a surprise. That I want all of my children to have, cludg our son, who is gay.
COMG OUT: HOW SEN. ROB PORTMAN’S GAY SON CHARTED HIS PATH
” It was tertg that Portman chose to e the same modifier, “personally, ” that Print Obama ed when he first announced his own evolutn to a gay-marriage supporter, to Rob Roberts, on ABC news. One n’t help wonrg if havg a gay son st Portman a spot on the G. But his Op-Ed, Portman gtured toward an emergg nservative posn on same-sex marriage—“One way to look at is that gay upl’ sire to marry don’t amount to a threat but rather a tribute to marriage”—and talked about the Biblil value of real example of urage this story, however, om Portman’s son Will, who is twenty-one years old.
GOP LAWMAKER ATTENDS GAY SON’S WEDDG AFTER VOTG AGAST MARRIAGE EQUALY
(I remember how felt to e out as the gay son of a proment anti-gay psychiatrist. ) Then image, after sharg this timate part of yourself wh your parents, watchg your father be publicly vetted for Vice-Print on the ticket of someone whose anti-gay-rights views were beg wily reported on.
In his Op-Ed, Portman wrote about learng that Will was gay:He said he’d known for some time, and that his sexual orientatn wasn’t somethg he chose; was simply a part of who he was. We were surprised to learn he was gay, but knew he was still the same person he’d always been. The only difference was that now we had a more plete picture of the son we Portman proved, once aga, that the most powerful polil act any gay person n take is g out.
Public-opn polls show, and have for s, that people who know a gay person are far ls likely to support discrimatn.
HERE’S HOW DOUG JON REACTED WHEN HIS SON TOLD HIM HE’S GAY
”) To have a close relative who is gay or lbian n only magnify the effect seen pollg. The most proment example of this is Cheney, who has been a longtime supporter of gay marriage, as is the former Hoe Majory Lear Dick Gephardt, who also has a lbian took Senator Portman two years om his son’s revelatn to e to a pot where he was willg to discs fortably, although Dana Bash, who terviewed him for CNN, says he was fact que awkward and nervo. ”Richard Soris is an attorney, polil strategist, wrer, and longtime gay-rights advote.
Glenn Thompson on Tuday joed 156 of his GOP lleagu votg agast the Rpect for Marriage Act, which if passed the Senate and signed by Print Joe Bin would dify same-sex marriage to, three days later, the Pennsylvania lawmaker attend his gay son's same-sex marriage. Glenn Thompson watched his son, who is gay, get married. For policians who have a change of heart about gay marriage – see Obama, Barack – figurg out how and when to “e out” is a lite task.
REPUBLIN SENATOR ATTEND HIS GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
But for the gay teenage child of a proment Republin polician wh natnal ambns – and a rerd of opposg any expansn of gay rights – g out may seem so risky, so emotnally ght, as to be not worth latter scenar is where Will Portman found himself, the son of Sen. ”The gay relative of another proment nservative – Chief Jtice John Roberts – ma news Sunday when the Los Angel Tim reported that Jtice Roberts’s lbian would be attendg this week’s US Supreme Court arguments on gay marriage as his gut. That tells exactly nothg about how Roberts might ultimately le on gay marriage, but do pot to a simple fact: that many people have relativ and/or iends who are gay, a fact that n affect one’s views of this fast-evolvg social brgs back to the Portman fay.
Senator Portman ma headl earlier this month by announcg that he now supports gay marriage – an unual step for a top Republin, who was on GOP printial nomee Mt Romney’s short list for nng mate. In his recent gay-marriage announcement, Portman also told the world that his son was gay – a fact already known to fay and iends, but until then, not a part of the senator’s public profile. “Some people have cricized my dad for wag for two years after I me out to him before he endorsed marriage for gay upl, ” wr Will Portman.
Romney’s nng mate last summer, he told the Romney mpaign that his son was gay, that he and his wife, Will’s mother, were “supportive and proud of their son, ” and that they’d be open about his orientatn on the mpaign senator wasn’t selected, but he told CNN wasn’t bee his son was gay. ”But now, wrg Monday’s lumn, Portman has st himself a slightly different role – as an advote his own right for young gay people g to terms wh their inty and for the right of same-sex upl to get wr of how, as a llege hman, the prospect of g out was “pretty terrifyg. ”Portman also shows an unrstandg of the two worlds he habs – his nservative hometown, Ccnati, and the liberal environs of Yale, which he lls the “Gay Ivy.
GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
” And, unlike some advot of gay marriage, he do not judge those who have a problem wh legalized unns for same-sex upl. ) has apparently broken the ter this week, after the LGBTQ muny disvered that the man who beat Roy Moore has an openly gay—and attractive—son. DOUG JONES BRING YOUR SON FORWARD FOR A BETTER LOOK— Breakfast Banator (@B_McC2) December 13, 2017Gays, take a moment tonight to celebrate Doug Jon’ son Carson — Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) December 13, 2017 are Tmp's creepy sons, braggg about killg a betiful animal, and here's Doug Jon' gay son Carson, who's a zookeeper.
— Pl Rudnick (@PlRudnickNY) December 14, 2017Gays on twter gog back om Polil experts to our normal horny thirsty selv after fdg out the Doug Jon has a gay son who’s a snack: — Crblock’s Weightloss Journey (@Coreyobr) December 13, 2017But folks on Twter aren’t the only on who adore Jon; his parents do, too. While workg at a zoo Atralia, he was spired to tell his parents he was gay after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage the Uned Stat. Republin Senator Glenn Thompson attend his gay son’s weddg jt days after votg agast a bill to protect gay marriage.