General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother Ohio Republican stands up for the Freedom to Marry.
Last Monday, another prominent Ohio Republican, former attorney general and state auditor Jim Petro jumped feet-first into the FreedomOhio petition effort, saying hes all for it and will be active in the campaign to get the constitutional amendment on the ballot and get it passed.
Petro, who opposed same-sex marriage in his 2006 run for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, changed his position last year after his daughter legally married a woman in Massachusetts, one of 13 states where such marriages are legal.
Petros leap from a supporter of same-sex marriage to an active participant in the effort to overturn Ohios ban came a few months after Ohios junior senator, Republican Rob Portman, said publicly that his son Will is gay and that his son and others who wish to do so should have the right to marry persons of the same sex.
Unlike Petro, Portman didnt jump into the petition campaign, but he did say that, if the issue reaches the ballot, people will know where I stand.
http://www.wvxu.org/post/will-ohio-reverse-course-its-gay-marriage-ban
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I am not impressed by these types.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)On a serious note when I learned partners was unable to visit the bed sides and attend to others needs I knew this was a very bad situation. Friends are the very best care givers, they care about you through whatever comes. A few stories of families preventing partners from being at the bed sides was awful but now thank goodness this is changing. In the last few years I have been by the bed side if dear friends who did not have family members or the patient did not want family members there, we went willingly and gave care.