This is no fairly tale,but once a pond time in America is Senator had a gay son he just might shoot himself.

This is no fairly tale,but once a pond time in American if Senator had gay son he might shoot himself.
Boy have times change,the consevative Senator from Buckeye State(Ohio),very much part G.O.P establishment before being Senator he had in the Bush Administration as Trade Representative and Budget Director,Rob Portman come out for same sex marriage.Why? Mainly because his son is gay.
What difference time makes,in era,a other time having gay son was disgrace.Back in 1954 Senator Lester hunt from Wyoming shoot himself in his Senate Office.Some say it was because he was in bad health,but most believe it was because his son was arrested for homosexual solicitation.It's nasty story some believe Allen Drury fictional book about the senate in nineteen fifties,"Advise and Consent" tells that story.Anyway according to Left-wing columnist Drew Person(later on Jack Anderson would be his junior partner and curious Anderson would have Brit Hume work for him,Anderson would complain that getting by-line from Person was drawing blood,Hume made same complain about Anderson)Hurt was blackmail by Senator Styles Bridges from New Hampshire(know as Senator Yankee) and Senator Herman Welker from Idaho to not ran for re-election so Republicans can pick the seat from Wyoming.
In the book "Advise and Consent" the President appoints Robert Leffingwell(played by Henry Fonda in the movie.)Leffingwell is lefty(nice play on a name,sort like Dicksons) with questionable past and soft on Soviet Union.The President is dying the Senate leader decide to have special committee to investigate Leffingwell,it's head by Senator Anderson,who is Mormon,a family man,but homosexual in counter in army,Leffingwell found this out and threaten to expose if goes against the Leffingwell nomination.Anderson commits suicide the vote goes senate floor where it's tie and everybody expect Vice-President Hudson to vote nomination but he doesn't when learns the President die,he wants he's own and wants people to he's his own man.