In case you missed it, straight ally and outspoken LGBT equality activist Zach Wahls addressed the Democratic National Convention yesterday. Wahls, the 20-year-old son of lesbian parents who shot to internet stardom last year after video of his impassioned pro-equality speech to Iowa lawmakers went viral, had a message for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who supports the addition of a marriage discrimination amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
Governor Romney says he’s against same-sex marriage because every child deserves a mother and a father. I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine. Because the sense of family comes from the commitment we make to each other to work through the hard times so we can enjoy the good ones. It comes from the love that binds us; that’s what makes a family. Mr. Romney, my family is just as real as yours.
Watch Wahls’ full speech below.
What a fine young man he is. Now tell me again how being raised by LGBT parents is damaging to the children. You think YOU could have done better with this boy than his two Moms did??
PLEASE.
Off topic… but doesn’t he sound a bit like Hayden Christiansen?
@Swedish Chef
“Off topic… but doesn’t he sound a bit like Hayden Christiansen?”
He really does.
“All our families.” That is the key. Not just families headed by a mother and father, but ALL our families. I know of no gay or lesbian who is against families headed by a mother and a father. My mother and father were two great parents to me and my siblings. But there are other families as well – families that are just as loving and nurturing. And all families deserve respect and legal recognition and protection.
I think that Professor Regnerus forgot to interview this kid for his study.
Quite deliberately, Jim.
Professor Regnerus thinks that by picking out the ‘Gold Standard’ blue M&Ms from random value bags at Walmart, he can legitimately compare them to the red ones but, wait, oh, there are only a handful of reds.
Prof. R: “No matter, junior statistician. Pick out all the colours like red”.
Junior: “Eh, orange?”
Prof R:”Yes”
Junior:”Err… dark brown?”
Prof R:”Yes, it’s a form of red, if the lighting is poor”
Junior:”How about yellow?”
Prof R:”Yes, red-to-orange-to-yellow, it’s a continuum. Have you never seen a rainbow?”
Junior:”No, but our Witherspoon budget is huge, we could analyse it”
Prof R:”No, for the sake of brevity, the rainbow has two colours”.
Junior:”Okay, you’re the boss”
Prof R:”Err, kind of”