Fifth Grader Blocked From Giving Marriage-Equality Speech Delivers It At City Council Meeting
Kameron Slade became our hero when he submitted a speech supporting same-sex marriage to a schoolwide competition at PS 195 in Queens. But when his principal declared the topic “inappropriate” and told him to chose another one or drop out of the contest, our heart broke.
The story has a happy ending, though: Recently wed Council Speaker Christine Quinn invited Slade, 10, to give his speech to the council on Wednesday.
“I think adults must realize that as children get older, they become aware of these mature issues that are going on in the world,” he told the assembled politicos. “If children read or watch the news, they can also learn about things like same-gender marriage, so what’s the point in trying to hide it?”
From the mouths of babes.
Very articulate for a boy his age. He knows a great deal about the subject matter as well! I quite enjoyed watching this :)
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@Colin: Yes, because he was forced to write the speech that he gave as part of the contest. His parents, or his teachers or his older brother or younger sister or whoever held a gun to his head and demanded that he write the speech.
Seriously, you need to get over yourself. Although, I can understand your view since you constantly profane your own ignorance as some sort of exploitation.
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You’d think people would know enough by now not to feed that troll. Ignore it, people.
Anyways, that kid is too cute, and it’s great that he’s getting a chance to do this! Speaker Quinn is a class act.
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@Daez: So just because he apparently wasn’t forced, that makes it OK? So I guess if he wanted to give a speech against gay marriage at the city council meeting, you’d be all for that, too? Hell, let’s round up all the 10 y/o across the country who are against marriage equality and have them sound off at the city council meetings, starting with the Westboro Baptist kids. Because apparently it’s OK for kids to say what they want to say and drag them into politics as long as they’re not being forced to do it.
Seriously, come up with something better than the self-serving b/s you and others like you try to pass off as critical thought.
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@erasure25: That’s a huge leap and has no relevance at all to this topic, starting with the fact that what you described a child participating in is a private ceremony and has absolutely nothing to do with public, controversial political issues.
Thanks, though, for showing me your (lack of) logic. I really appreciate it.
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This kid is a good speech writer. =] He should look up more often however.
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Do y’all not know Collin’s fucking agenda like seriously y’all do this every time IGNORE HIM that’s what he wants geez i swear y’all are oblvious and just as guilty as him what part of, “don’t feed the trolls” do y’all not understand geez
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This should TOTALLY go viral. I actually applauded when he finished. These issues SHOULD be discussed, with children, and without shame. It’s not about complicated adult “sex” things, it’s about two people, whatever their genders, loving each other and having or starting families. Which is supposedly what straight people think everyone should all do anyway – get married and have children.
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The fact that it angers the anti-gays means it’s the right thing to do.
Hey homophobe, get used to it.
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@Colin: Yes, regretably, if he wanted to give a speech against gay marriage then I would support his right to do that as well. That is what freedom of speech is about. He has a right to state his opinion. I have a right to disagree with it. If it is a child talking I’m less likely to disagree with him than I am with his viewpoint, however. When it is an adult, I disagree with them in general when they speek discrimination.
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@Colin: Weddings are not really private ceremonies (in most cases) however because breeders love to show off their ability to get hitched. Most of the time that they bother to do it anymore though they are either highly religious or the chick is knocked up.
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@Bee: Yes, it is obvious that he is a troll; however, it has always been my view that giving a troll a platform normally pisses everyone off, and the most powerful motivator in the world is anger. In fact, anger has been a driving force behind all of the human’s rights movements.
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PS, Bloody white republican Christian, get out of the Americas, it`s not your country and will never be!!!.
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@Daez: Then you are not someone who has a sense of ethics at all. There’s no point in taking it further than that, so I won’t. But I am not surprised that you would have the beliefs that you do. Most people here are pretty much insane when it comes to the gay agenda.
@Daez: Pure nonsense.
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@Colin:
When a child talks about God, about keeping his tenants and commandments, this blog goes nuts. He is brain washed, how could adults fill his head with such dribble and on the rant goes. But it appears that a child who has been equally brain washed to support the gay movement is just fine, what an astute child, he’s a genius.
Both children are merely projecting the values taught at home, neither have the emotional or intellectual capacity to understand what they are saying on an adult level. What they say and think five years down the road may be an 180° difference. I would suggest allowing them to grow up before putting too much energy into what they mouth now.
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@Marjorie 0120: This child is 10, not 4. At 10 years old I was reading Watership Down, questioning the existence of God, and wondering what it meant that I was attracted to other boys, despite growing up in a deeply Christian family. Many intelligent and perceptive children are already thinking about “adult” topics with no coaching by their parents. Don’t judge all children from your own specific experience.
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Exploiting children to further a political agenda is pathetic and crass, no matter what they’re supporting.