News : A Twelve-Year-Old Boy Stood Up Against Anti-LGBT Protesters
Photo Credits: Regeneración
Mexico—A 12-year-old boy made history when he stood up in front of the 11,000 protesters who took to the streets of Celaya, Guanajuato to oppose same-sex marriage this weekend.
Several demonstrations simultaneously transpired in Mexico in the wake of their President Enrique Pena Nieto’s federal law proposal to legalize same-sex marriage all across the country. It is said that although several states such as Coahuila, Quintana Roo, Jalisco, Nayarit, Chihuahua, Chiapas, and Sonora including Mexico City allows same-sex marriage, 30 others have yet to legalize the law.
The rally was said to have been arranged by an organization called National Front for the Family, a league that consisted mostly of various conservative and religious groups. Apart from the demonstrations, they also gathered over 100,000 signatures opposing the bill.
The call for constitutional ban on equal marriage attracted tens of thousands, the marchers holding banners that said, ‘For Life and Family.’
During one of those protests, the one held in Celaya, one boy literally stood in front of the marching crowd in an effort to stop them.
Manuel Rodriguez told Regeneración in an interview, “At first I thought the child was only playing.” But when he got the chance to talk to the boy after he was removed from the road, the child told him, “I have an uncle who is gay,”’ adding, “and I hate that people hate.”
The photo had gone viral and the netizens had since then compared it to the snapshot of the infamous Tank Man–also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel. Nowadays the nicknames are used to refer to the mysterious man who stood in the way of a column of tanks the morning after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 by force.
Jeff Widener of the Associated Press on the other hand, captured and immortalized Tank Man’s scene in a photograph shown below.
As in the Tank Man, the boy had also chosen to withhold his identity.
Who talked him into it? It would be a touching and inspirational story only if a 12 year old did this on his own.
Unlike yourself even 12 year olds know the difference between right and wrong.
Unlike yourself I don’t feel the need to personally insult you
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Interesting….right and wrong….what does a country’s view on the state or marriage have to do with right and wrong. People should be free from persecution because of there sexuality but the whole world doesn’t have to bless it or like it. The “me” generation has lost its way. I think that everyone…….everyone should be free to do what they want. Not everyone has to see it their way.
I think it’s cool that he did that, but I also think it’s so weird that the captions always read something like “11 year old boy makes history” – no one is going to remember that boy in 10 years, let alone next year. He didn’t make history, he just did something cool.
I wish gestures like that had more impact; i’m sure no one in the March of Hatred gave him a second thought, which is really sad.
An insperation to every human on this little blue marble LOVE IS BETTER THEN HATE. If I was his parent I would be bursting with pride.