Newsom, dad describe awakening on marriage equality

The Sacramento Bee
April 20, 2009
"My mind was closed," William Newsom said in an interview. "I'm from an Irish Catholic family. My father was a bit nonplussed about this. And I was too." But he said over the next year or so, his son changed his mind about marriage and he came to see it as a matter of equal rights. "It took awhile," the elder Newsom said. "He changed my mind on it, not by arguing, but he made me think about it....I gradually came around to his point of view. I wasn't prepared for it. But over the last year or so, I've come fully on board." [Link]