Watch This: 5th-Grader's Gay-Marriage Speech

Watch This: Fifth-grader's gay-marriage speech: Fifth-grader Kameron Slade was elected to represent his class in a schoolwide speech competition but had his subject matter denied by the principal, who deemed gay marriage an inappropriate issue. Kameron, who "thought that this was a real good winning speech for tomorrow," got to deliver the whole thing to…

Watch This: Fifth-grader's gay-marriage speech: Fifth-grader Kameron Slade was elected to represent his class in a schoolwide speech competition but had his subject matter denied by the principal, who deemed gay marriage an inappropriate issue. Kameron, who "thought that this was a real good winning speech for tomorrow," got to deliver the whole thing to NY1.

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