Pro-Gay Marriage Video...thoughts?

I found this video on you tube of a Senator speaking about gay marriage....and I thought it was really persuasive.
Figured I'd put it out there and see what others think....
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Re: Pro-Gay Marriage Video...thoughts?

OMG
I think I want to marry her. What a poised and eloquent speaker, which really is an advantage when speaking on an issue that raises the hot air volume every time it goes to a vote.

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"Turn on the television. We have a wedding channel on cable TV devoted to the behavior of people on the way to the altar. They spend billions of dollars, behave in the most appalling way, all in an effort to be princess for a day. You don't have cable television? Put on network TV. We're giving away husbands on a game show. You can watch The Bachelor, where thirty desperate women will compete to marry a 40-year-old man who has never been able to maintain a decent relationship in his life."

"That's what we've done to marriage in America, where young women are socialized from the time they're five years old to think of being nothing but a bride. They plan every day what they'll wear, how they'll look, the invitations, the whole bit, they don't spend five minutes thinking about what it means to be a wife. People stand up there before god and man even in Senator Diaz's church, they swear to love honor and obey, they don't mean a word of it. So if there's anything wrong with the sanctity of marriage in America, it comes from those of us who have the privilege and the right and have abused it for decades."

And my favorite about 5 minutes in:

We in government don't determine the quality or the validity of people's relationships; if we did we wouldn't issue 3/4 of the marriage licenses we do.

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Pro-Gay Marriage Video...thoughts?

Posted by colette

OMG
I think I want to marry her. "

Re: Pro-Gay Marriage Video...thoughts?

At first I thought that a lot of people in the room were not paying attention but by the end she certainly had their attention. This speech was excellent!