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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
Sat Jul 5, 2014, 07:15 PM Jul 2014

Huff Post-Two Lesbians Raised A Baby And This Is What They Got -A White House Intern

By Ryan Grim
Posted: 07/02/2014 11:25 am EDT | Updated: 07/03/2014 2:59 pm EDT


White House intern Zach Wahls in July 2014. (Courtesy Zach Wahls)

WASHINGTON -- A Huffington Post reporter called the main White House press line earlier this week and heard a familiar-sounding voice, but couldn't quite place it. The voice, it turned out, would have been familiar to millions of people who first saw the now-intern, then-college student Zach Wahls speak about his two moms at an Iowa public forum to oppose an anti-marriage-equality measure.

Wahls was a University of Iowa student at the time, and a video of his speech about his family went viral. It was later picked up by MoveOn.org, which gave the video its iconic headline -- "Two Lesbians Raised A Baby And This Is What They Got" -- and vaulted it from somewhat popular to Internet sensation. The viral success encouraged MoveOn's Eli Pariser to launch Upworthy.

Wahls has since taken his local activism national, speaking at the Democratic National Convention and lobbying Congress for marriage equality.

Pariser said he expects this won't be Wahls' last job in the White House.


Read more @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/02/zach-wahls_n_5551300.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
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Huff Post-Two Lesbians Raised A Baby And This Is What They Got -A White House Intern (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Jul 2014 OP
Of course! thank you, LFR~ Cha Jul 2014 #1
Great story! Thanks. William769 Jul 2014 #2
I hate it when that happens!!!1!11 shenmue Jul 2014 #3
I know that CONservatives do! Lady Freedom Returns Jul 2014 #5
Awesome! I had wondered where he had gone from there LadyHawkAZ Jul 2014 #4
Ain't he one handsome dude...there is nothing more angstlessk Jul 2014 #6
Ain't that the truth! And the secret is revealed that these wonderful guys CTyankee Jul 2014 #8
That's because a handsome liberal man is lovely on the inside calimary Jul 2014 #9
I tell myself that every time I look in the mirror... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2014 #10
If you are a liberal man, you are HANDSOME angstlessk Jul 2014 #11
Well, thank you... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2014 #12
Thanks for sharing, LFR. nt brer cat Jul 2014 #7

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
6. Ain't he one handsome dude...there is nothing more
Sat Jul 5, 2014, 08:31 PM
Jul 2014

sexy than a handsome man who is a LIBERAL...(see George Clooney)

CTyankee

(63,903 posts)
8. Ain't that the truth! And the secret is revealed that these wonderful guys
Sat Jul 5, 2014, 08:43 PM
Jul 2014

have more fulfilling relationships and better sex lives with their partners!

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
12. Well, thank you...
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 12:10 AM
Jul 2014

I am not a bad looking guy, and I understand the importance of strong women. My two grandmothers, my mother, and my wife are all strong women. I don't want a servant as a wife, I want an equal.

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