Senate Majority Leader to Conservatives Regarding the Gays: You've Already Lost

Posted by Colleen Kane

 

First of all, BREAKING: Vermont has made gay marriage legal!

Next, a new video posted by the Iowa Senate has been burning up the Internets. It features Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal responding to Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley yesterday, the first day the Senate convened following the unanimous decision allowing gay marriage in Iowa. 

The money quote in his speech, in which he refuses to join McKinley in a leadership bill to amend the Iowa Constutution and reverse the legalization of gay marriage, comes when he describes his daughter listening to old crusty conservatives discussing gay marriage. She told them, "You guys dont understand. Youve already lost. My generation doesnt care."

Now for that video. 

 

A little dramatic, yes, but also worthy of a slow clap. 

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Comments

GeeBee said:

You tell him dude! It was all the more effective coming from a guy who looked and sounded like a conservative Midwesterner, but yet was speaking such a delightful truth.

April 7, 2009 5:55 PM

About Colleen Kane

Colleen has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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