1 Iowan's Declaration

This is 19-year-old Zach Wahls, who spoke before the Iowa House of Representatives this week during its constitutional hearings to ban same-sex marriage. Wahls, the son of a lesbian couple, is an Eagle Scout and engineering student who scored in the 99th percentile on the ACT college aptitude test. He's also as proud of his parents as many of the parents on Born This Way are of their kids. "We go to church together. We eat dinner. We go on vacations," he says, thereby effectively destroying traditional marriage as we know it. Whew, thank God you voted to repeal gay marraige, Iowa!

Even though Wahls acknowledges that "what you’re voting here isn’t to change us. It’s not to change our families," he adds, movingly, "We just hope for equal and fair treatment from our government. " It's a magnificent testimony to good parenting, and further evidence that who you love matters so, so much less than how much you love. And as Lady Gaga sings, there's nothing wrong, either, with loving who you are.

Scott: I love the comment that voting won't change them or their love.  Voting only removes their legal protection and tells us all you really really feel they are less worthy than "normal" humans and don't deserve respect or legal protection.

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ps. Ed posted this already on facebook - so if you saw it you saw it.