A Republican discovers his heart, Mark Morford
I hereby applaud anyone’s awakening. I champion anyone’s arrival to a new and improved state of awareness, a more compassionate way of being resulting (most frequently) from the unexpected release of some ugly, false conviction that only served to keep you angry and cramped and Republican and very much on the wrong side of history.
Which is to say, it behooves not just you or me, but all of humanity to acknowledge when a powerful, long-irrational public figure has a personal breakthrough that leads to less fear, more kindness, more understanding, even more – dare I say it without either of us cringing and rolling our eyes? – love.
It happens all the time; it doesn’t happen nearly enough.
So it went with Sen. Rob Portman, classic rigid Republican from Ohio, rated very near zero on all scales of goodness and love WRT civil liberties, social issues, the environment, women’s rights, gay rights et al, according to various watchdog groups that keep track of such things (NARAL, FAIR, ACLU, etc). Portman’s views on the issues of the day still bode quite ill and ugly for modern culture as a whole.
The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/03/19/a-republican-discovers-his-heart/
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Bingo. After years of deep homophobia and toeing the heartless party line, the mildly thoughtful senator finally snapped to the fact that his kid deserved as much right to be as in love, legally married, miserable and undersexed as anyone else.
