Anti-gay activists have criticized Ohio
Senator Rob Portman's recent endorsement of gay marriage, which he
said was inspired by the coming out of his son, Will Portman, a
college student.
Portman is the first GOP senator to
buck the party's official stance.
(Related: Senator
Rob Portman reverses course on gay marriage.)
Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel
criticized Portman for trying to “accommodate his son's abhorrent
lifestyle.”
“This provides us a perfect example
of the danger of looking at things through the jaundiced prism of our
own feelings rather than on objective truths,” Barber told Instant
Analysis, formerly OneNewsNow.
“I've heard some wacky excuses by
politicians for changing their minds on some of the most important
moral issues facing America, but Ohio Sen. Rob Portman's rationale
for flip-flopping on same-sex marriage takes the proverbial wedding
cake,” WorldNetDaily.com editor Joseph
Farah wrote.
“In case you haven't heard, his son
is a homosexual.”
“I guess we should all be grateful
Rob Portman's son didn't choose to become a polygamist or a serial
killer,” he added.
Linda Harvey, president of the
Ohio-based Mission American, called Will Portman's sexual orientation
a “delusion.”
“Every person out there who claims a
'gay' identity has the ability to get married in Ohio or anywhere
else now,” Harvey
said. “He or she can marry someone of the opposite sex,
because that's what marriage is and because a 'gay' identity is a
delusion. Two men, no matter how sincere they feel, or two women,
will never be a marriage. The person who believes this disorder is
'who he is,' as apparently Portman's son does, has tragically
internalized a lie.”
(Related: Rob
Portman warned that his gay son may die of AIDS.)