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The Place We Find Ourselves

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Bob Portman

In episode 189 you tell a story about a man named rob portman. He is a conservative republican senator from ohio. His son came out as gay and within two days of his son coming out senator portman very publicly Reversed his position on gay marriage. It's such a Clear concrete and brief example of exactly the kind of thing that I'm talking about in the book You have a belief system. You have values That you adhere to honestly, it's not just that bob portman's view on human sexuality changed his view of god Changed because what god was opposed to two days earlier God is no longer opposed to in his opinion.

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