- Joined
- Feb 20, 2012
- Messages
- 104,071
- Reaction score
- 84,041
- Location
- Biden's 'Murica
- Gender
- Female
- Political Leaning
- Moderate
because the understanding, respect and want for equal rights of your fellow americans (especial from a politician) should come before a family member needs them.
Its sad that it took a personal experience like that to turn on the common sense logic that ALL americans deserve equal rights. But like I said better late than never. The ability to learn is better than pure ignorance and denial.
He found out in 2011 that his son was gay. In 2013 he publicly came out in support of gay marriage. Gay marriage hasn't been a front and center issue for the last 40 years. It's relatively new, so much so that even President Obama didn't change his stance on it until 2012.
It isn't sad at all. It's actually very understandable. The issue of gay marriage became very real to him because of his son. That isn't sad. It's called being human and a father.