TAMPA — On Thursday, April 4, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) announced that he has reversed his official stance on marriage equality, telling the Tampa Bay Times editorial board in a statement, “(T)o discriminate against one class and not another is wrong for me. If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn’t those be attainable by Gays and Lesbians?”

“Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage?” asked Nelson. “I shouldn’t, and I won’t. So I will add my name to the petition of senators asking the Supreme Court to declare the law that prohibits gay marriage unconstitutional.”