It's Elementary: Marriage Equality Debate

A clip from GroundSpark's film, It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues In School where students at a New York public school discuss gay marriage. Sixteen years later, marriage for gays and lesbians in now legal in New York.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• lgbt
• marriage
• equality
• education

[Atemporal]

Wow, those girls at the end were really passionate about it. I can't believe they have much more common sense than the majority of bigots out there.

[mrfrenik]

I love this. Why are people so afraid of informing kids on issues such as gay marriage? It seems pretty clear to me that they are more than capable of making up their own minds about issues at early ages such as this.

[TigerNightmare]

The reason why the argument against gay marriage was not presented is because ... there is no argument against gay marriage. Bigoted morons would answer by saying, "Because," or, "It's wrong," or, "It's in the Bible," or some other asinine BS. The people who want to keep gay rights open for debate don't actually have anything to debate.

[daccord1]

This is so cute lol. These kids discussions are much more civil than the ones in the courts haha and in my psychology class =/

[EmeraldView]

NOMs doomed.

[AkisameYume]

I love how there are comments on here that the interviewer and stuff is pushing an agenda or brainwashing. Let's just forget all the movie and TV basically saying heterosexuality is normal. Boy meets girl is normal. Not boy meets boy or girl meets girl. ARE YOU SERIOUS?

[ABGAN100]

@ScarletGhost4356 and this interviewers body language screams out loud just look at his introduction he says "Other people think that the state should not decide these things, watch his head he make a back and forth NO head turn! subliminal suggestions via body language. kids are like sponges and tend to be highly prescriptive, and at this age whose to say how much influence their parents have over them or even how much time they spend with them.

[ABGAN100]

@ScarletGhost4356 my point is give anyone an emotional issue to argue with out all the information, and they will argue based on emotion even more so for children, based on what ever influences their are in their life's, their teacher and patients, etc. they will even change their arguments based on the body language of the interviewer. If an interviewer show in their body language disapproval in an answer they will backtrack an alter their answer. kids are highly perceptive sponges.

[ScarletGhost4356]

@ABGAN100 Yeah, I'm seeing where an emotional response would come into play with the argument, but if they're not being given any arguments for or against, there's no way to prove that liberals or anyone in general tried to sway them in any way. It was just explaining what they feel about it, and there's every chance they could've said no. Didn't you see the two boys that said that they didn't really support it that much around the beginning?

[ABGAN100]

@ScarletGhost4356 children will believe most what ever the authority tell them. this clip was meant to evoke a pro gay marriage response, the children were given a topic in which they were not given all the arguments for or against, so the only argument they could make is and emotional one. this is a topical liberal mob tactic. it is the mob tactic mentality, make issues emotional not logical to gin up the crowd to violence.

[ScarletGhost4356]

@tonshaad1230 It's one thing to say that children are starting to believe that there's nothing wrong with being gay and another to say that it was because the gay agenda pushed it against them. How do you prove your claim?