Denver Marriage Equality Rally: Ethan speaks

Nine-year-old Ethan speaks on the Capitol steps in Denver at a marriage equality rally that he personally organized with the help of his teacher, Kyle Kimmal, who introduces Ethan here, and his mother, Tracy Edwards, who is straight. Edwards said that Ethan thought it was unfair that some of the family's friends could not get married. Helping Ethan during his speech is Mindy Barton, legal director at The (GLBT) Center's Legal Initiatives Project (CLIP). Almost two dozen of Ethan's classmates and friends attended to support him, and nearly 200 LGBT people and allies attended the rally.

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News & Politics

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• marriage equality
• LGBT
• Denver
• Colorado

[dijhili]

I agree...church should stay out of politics or they too should pay taxes like the rest of us.

[kspieles]

Im crying right now. If a nine year old can understand how marriage equality works more then the government, that is saying something. My fingers are crossed to someday be able to marry my beautiful (female) fiancee

[vidhead85]

I believe that children are smarter than we give them credit for. There is a debate about whether he wrote this all himself or had an adult help...My thought is: Does it matter? No, because he articulated his feelings about equal marriage rights. Despite CO 's Amendment 43 marriage equality will visit CO

[Jnorrisclay]

@jbthe4th yeah agreed. i am an equal marriage activist and this doesn't impress me at all. obviously written by the parents.

[CorgisAreForever]

@jbthe4th he wrote it broskies, lol

[jbthe4th]

Just looks like another trained monkey (kid) reading off a prepared script written for him by adults. Plenty of that on the right as well.

[ahsmabaar]

Does anyone find it sad that this kid is more compassionate and rational than the enire GOP put together?

[ThisIsMrObvious]

I love how 24 people dislike a child with independent thought and an articulate argument for his opinion.

[sarah9miller]

Why do we even care what religion or government thinks about our relationships? Get government out of marriage and we will all be better off. More freedom for everyone. Government free marriage now!

[ttmfg]

"From the mouths of babes." That is an old expression meaning that children can sometimes see the truth better than the adults!