The whole idea of marriage, in my view, is to have someone you love by your side.

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Portman says his son, now a junior in college, helped him work through his decision to announce his change in position on gay marriage and blessed the idea of publicly announcing Will Portman's sexuality.

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Twenty-two U.S. senators have told me they support the idea of including a marriage equality plank in a Democratic Party platform.

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Although most men say they support -- even welcome -- the idea of a dual income household and equality in marriage, evidence shows that men whose wives earn more may actually be suffering on a number of levels.

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This fact has long since been conveniently dropped down the memory hole, but in 1993 virtually all of the leaders of the gay political establishment were fiercely opposed to the idea of gay marriage, and they vilified as sellouts those of us who supported it.

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"There has been a realisation among college-educated Americans that marriage is actually a pretty good idea, even if they don't like to talk about it in public, " argues Bradford Wilcox.

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