Conservative Enlightenment

There's an old saying the goes something like "you're a liberal until you have your first child, then you become a conservative." The mayor of San Diego recently found out the corollary to that maxim, which is that you can be a conservative for as long as you'd like, but when your lesbian daughter wants to get married you become a liberal.

Yesterday, by a 5-3 vote, the City Council of San Diego passed a resolution supporting marriage equality. Jerry Sanders, the Republican mayor-- who campaigned opposing marriage equality-- announced this morning that he had changed his mind and would sign the resolution instead of vetoing it. A former Chief of Police, Sanders, tearfully also announced that one of his daughters, Lisa, is gay and that he would lead with his heart. "The concept of a separate but equal institution is something that I cannot support," he explained, tearfully, with his wife standing at his side.

Click here to watch the remarkable video. It's not often you get to see someone share an epiphany with the world.