1 NEWS.Smith said he had promised his son, who is gay, that he’d speak about the vote in his speech. He said that voting against marriage equality was “an issue I got wrong.”"The error is all the more personal with my 20-year-old son being gay,” Smith said. "I want to put on record today my apology to New Zealand's LGBT+ community."Smith told 1 NEWS that his son, Logan, came out three years ago.“Already at that time, I felt my views were wrong.
I gave him a commitment that before I retired from Parliament I would give that apology publicly,” he said."When Logan first told me, we went out for a meal, and he had something important to tell me.