It is never too late to offer a public "mea culpa" for taking a political action that you later believe was a serious mistake.
That's the idea behind a recent entry on the blog Republicus.
Former Republican State Rep. Chris Ward wrote the post declaring that he'd been on the "wrong side of history" when he opposed same-sex marriage during his time in Lansing.
Ward remembered his vote in 2004, when Republican strategists put same-sex marriage bans on the ballot all across the country in an effort to turn out votes for then-President George W. Bush.
From his post:
Looking back now, one of the things that bothers me the most about the whole episode was how dehumanizing it was. It was just politics. But it wasn't politics ... these were people. We singled out a whole group of people, most of whom just wanted to be left alone, to forcefully discriminate against them for short term political benefit.
Chris Ward is now a policy analyst with the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, and he joined us today.
Listen to the full interview above.
