Ohio's Rob Portman is first GOP senator to support gay marriage

c. 2013 Religion News Service

WASHINGTON (RNS) Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman on Thursday (March 14) announced he has reversed his longtime opposition to same-sex marriage after reconsidering the issue because his 21-year-old son, Will, is gay.

    Portman said his son, a junior at Yale University, told his wife, Jane, and him that he's gay and "it was not a choice, it was who he is and that he had been that way since he could remember."