>>Some reporters starting asking some of the republican's running for president - if they had a family member that was having a gay wedding, would they go to it? The answers these guys provided (although I know at least one simply didn't answer the question) was some of the most ridiculous things you could imagine.
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>>And our republican senator, Rob Portman, has a gay son. When his son came out, it changed Portman's opinions on gay marriage, Like I said before, you really should not use such a broad brush...
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>And that was a good thing, except as one of my kids pointed out, as a representative of the people, he ought to be able to take a broad view without it having to be his own kid who opens his mind.
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>Tamar

Exactly. We had a case here where a senior Conservative had to fight a personal legal case. his costs where very high and afterwards he said he wished he'd voted differently on reducing legal aid because of the problem it had caused him and it had made him realise the impact of the change.