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Related: About this forumBar mitzvah boy's call for gay marriage takes YouTube by storm
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/1.561421Duncan McAlpine Sennett of Portland uses his bar mitzvah talk to discuss the changing nature of marriage.
By The Forward and Jay Michaelson | Dec. 2, 2013 | 10:22 PM
At my bar mitzvah, many moons ago, I took the daring step to talk about I cant remember. Like most Bar and Bat Mitzvah kids, my remarks were pretty perfunctory.
But not those of Duncan McAlpine Sennett.
In a talk now trending on YouTube, Duncan starts out in straightforward fashion, talking about his Torah portion. But then he notices something strange: that the marriages between Jacob, Rachel, and Leah were arranged, with no consent of the women (or even Jacob himself, in part), and, in Duncans words, Jacob married two sisters, who were both her first cousins!
Duncan then observes how the definition of marriage has changed dramatically since Biblical times and makes an impassioned plea to change it just a little bit more, so that people can marry who they love. Duncans timing is deliberate: same-sex marriage is on the ballot in his home state of Oregon next year, and as he name-checks his familys gay friends in the audience, you can hear a pin drop.
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Bar mitzvah boy's call for gay marriage takes YouTube by storm (Original Post)
King_David
Dec 2013
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IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)1. Are Republicans smarter than a 13-year-old?
Nope.
End of story.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)2. They're not smarter than the lint in this 13-year-old kid's belly button!
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)3. I saw this on the Last Word last night
This young man is going to do great things