Book Report 1

I decided to read "My two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family" by Zach Wahls. I decided to do my book report on this book because while I was surfing you tube, I came across Zach giving a speech in Iowa about Gay Marriage. I watched his speech and was inspired and absolutely agreed with what Zach said and what he believed in. Here is the link I watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf9Q In his speech he talked about how gay marriage should be allowed in Iowa and how it is okay for two people of the same sex to be married. He was the son of a gay couple and he used himself in his example of how someone who is raised by two gay people can turn out normal, successful even being a engineering student as well as an eagle scout. In the book, Wahls discusses how having gay parents is just like having normal loving parents except with the politics that other people try to force on them. In the book, Wahls discussed how his parents really stressed about being kind to other kids and it was a virtue that he grew up with. His parents said "Since I was a little boy, my moms have impressed upon me how important it is to be kind." All parents should press love and kindness onto their children as virtues yet in my own school I see many of my peers that have parents that do not express the same kind of virtues with their children. It is funny that people stress that two gay people could not be good parents and role models yet here is Wahls, a eagle scout and a good student who was taught good virues yet even in my own school where (I think) all of the parents are heterosexual, they are not taught the same kind of virtues and morals that Wahls knows. People have to realize that whatever the sexual nature of the parents, it is the virtues, morals and ideals that create the kind of person their child is. Wahls shows us this in his book and the way he acts towards other people. While Wahls was in first grade his parents told him to not fight but be the better person. When at school the next day he was being bullied by a kid who was telling him he would never be a man and was too weak to even through the dodgeball in PE. Wahls could have said many things and acted inappropriately yet what Wahls did was tell the kid he "feel sorry for you" because he of how his parents raised him. It is because of the way Wahls's parents raised him that he is the kind of person that he is today and just like any other family, it is up to the parents to set the values that the children should look up to. Same sex marriage should be allowed because it is not because someone is married to someone of the other sex that would suddenly "make" the child weird and different. It is up to the parent's teachings and values that will help a child grow and become who they are.