A nine-year-old little boy named Ethan McNamee has given me hope and made my heart swell with pride. He is organizing a rally for marriage equality. He lined up speakers and appealed to classmates and teachers for help, and several helped him make signs. One of the coolest things about him are his reasons for wanting to do it. It’s not because he’s gay and it’s not because his parents are gay. This is a boy who heard some children at school make antigay remarks and then learned that a same-sex couple in his neighborhood did not have the right to get married and decided that he wanted to do something about it. Major credit also goes to the child’s parents for supporting him and for not discouraging him for wanting to do this. Good for them for (presumably) explaining why antigay speech is not okay. Good for them for (presumably) teaching him about equal rights.
This child gives me hope for the future. He’s more intelligent, open-minded, logical, and accepting than many adults out there. His parents should be proud.
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That's amazing. If he's organizing rallies at age nine, where will he be in five, ten, fifteen years? I'm so, so impressed.
I love how people are quick to say that he’s being used while NOM has that atrocious commercial.
I can only hope that my son will be as awesome as this kid. Actually, I can do more then hope. I can teach him love and acceptance instead of mythology and bigotry. Amazing concept…
That's incredibly inspiring!
What an awesome kid!!
What a guy!
Someone should post a link to his parents so we can all tell them how well they've done.
oh, and i also wanna tell him that organizing a rally gets easier the more you do it, but it never gets easy. it's always exhausting but almost always worth every minute of work!