Rob Portman, a Republican Senator from Ohio, wrote a commentary published today in the Columbus

Dispatch.

Formerly, Senator Portman opposed marriage for same-sex couples.

Now today he has switched his view on this and claims he changed his view in part because

of his faith and because of what he reads in the Bible.

As you can imagine, this is causing quite a stir online.

Pastor John, what are your thoughts on Senator Portman's editorial today?

Rob Portman has said that for conservative reasons, like the permanent Mr. David Cameron,

now he's going to switch his view from supporting traditional man, woman, marriage to supporting

so-called same-sex marriage, a very sad article and I just want to flag two things that

he said, which I think are very serious for us to think about, watch for, be aware of

that are swaying people in that direction.

His son came out as having same-sex attraction and he says that is the quote, I'm a dad who

wants all three of his kids to lead happy, meaningful lives with people they love.

A blessing Jane and I have shared for 26 years and he infers from that that for his son

to be happy, he must be given the right to marry so-called another man.

So he's elevating happiness as he understands it above biblical guidelines of what makes

you happy.

So the first observation I have is the absolutizing of self-defined long-term happiness as opposed

to God's definition of long-term happiness is right at the heart of how people are changing

their minds here.

We're simply abstracting the term happiness out of its biblical context and definition,

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