Author: Emily Swanson
Publication: Huffington Post
Publication Date: March 21, 2013
Last week, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) announced he supports gay marriage after years of opposing it, saying he changed his mind after his son came out as gay. New polls released this week show that Portman is among many Americans who have shifted their views in favor of gay marriage in recent years, and that people’s personal relationships with gay people are behind much of the change in public opinion.