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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[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.

[Christian Malloy]

The little girl at 1:54 should be put in front of Congress. She gets it man.

[zaqhhh]

Omg heartwArming thank god for the new generation

[TAR RAT]

the video is cute but it was a little upsetting that one of the little boys thought all gay people had a disease

[Robin Rosen]

I love how seriously, actually professionally, the last girl approaches the topic. Brilliant!! I can actually see her becoming a civil rights attorney some day.

[BenniRocco36]

1:45....  'like who cares if we are gay...' (meanwhile his fake boyfriend is just oblivious, colouring away madly) LMAO!

[BenniRocco36]

1:18 & 1:54 I LOVE THOSE TWO GIRLS!!!

[cyprokka]

Cute little kids. This proves that its the simplest answer to the simplest question. If you can do it, so can I. Even the kids know it.

[spoogegoat]

I loved how at 1:54 the girl independently comes out with what is effectively the two-wolves-and-one-sheep-votin­g-what-to-have-for-lunch analogy, highlighting the inaplicability of democracy for matters of personal circumstance. (Democracy is the last resort to use when a population must decide on something that must be uniformly applied, such as which side of the road to drive on.)