“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. That isn’t how I’ve always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.

Two years ago, my son Will, then a college freshman, told my wife, Jane, and me that he is gay…”

- Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), announcing that after wrestling with the issue, he now supports marriage equality. 

Now if only one of the Portman kids could come out as poor or unemployed, maybe Congress could pass a decent budget.

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