Posted on 12/26/2017 8:04:48 PM PST by Ennis85
A man whose speech defending same-sex marriage went viral in 2011 has announced his bid for an Iowa State Senate seat.
Zach Wahls, who was 19 when he made the viral video, gave a powerful speech to the Iowa House of Representatives’s Judiciary Committee about growing up with two moms. The video was YouTube’s most-watched political video that year.
Wahls, now 26, is running as a Democrat to fill the Iowa State Senate seat for the 37th District, which will be vacated by Democrat Bob Dvorsky, who is not seeking reelection.
Wahls announced his campaign on Twitter on Dec. 21, outlining a platform that focuses on more affordable higher education, Medicaid expansion and addressing mental health care.
“I am incredibly conscientious of the fact that I am a straight white guy running in the Me Too moment,” Wahls wrote in the thread. “I am running because I believe all Iowans need a seat at the table. That absolutely means more women running, it means more young people, it means more people of color. This is an all hands on deck situation that is going to determine the future of our state for generations to come — and all hands means all hands.”
A crowdfunding page for Wahls’s campaign has raised more than $30,000 since it was launched last week.
“I want to be a voice for you,” Wahls’s campaign site reads. “I’m an advocate. I know what it’s like to not feel represented by your government. I fought for my family and I want to fight for yours. I’ve always spoken truth to power.”
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Who the hell would watch a video speech about queers getting “married”?
Needs to be soundly defeated.
BARF
Pervertphiles
Democrat Senate district, voted for the Butcheress of Benghazi (though did vote for Sen. Grassley).
democrat, the pervert party, islam and everything else unnatural under the sun.
Oh...and also the anti-God party.
“Zach Wahls, who was 19 when he made the viral video, gave a powerful speech to the Iowa House of Representatives’s Judiciary Committee about growing up with two moms.”
So we should support redefining marriage because of a personal story I see I see.
Yeah you might want to take a look at the disportionately high rate of domestic violence amongst lesbian couples.
Not surprising.
Homosexuals have been inflicting themselves in what used to be the heartland for a couple of decades now.
Just take a drive across Nebraska on hwy 34. Their little rainbow enclaves are in-your-face conspicuous.
>>Needs to be soundly defeated.
Probably won’t be.
The progressive homosexual “community” always subverts the political and social leadership infrastructure occultly before they start overtly clanging their pride in the populations face.
By then, they’re entrenched like a metastatic cancer.
Is this road Iowa is going down now? Man, the Left have truly performed a successful op indoctrinating the younger people in our nation. Hope this trend reverse course.
People like Zach who’ve been raise by two same-sex “parents” are essentially single parent children. One of the two sides is missing.
When he is young, who does he, a male, go to to get advice about how to treat women, from a man’s perspective? From the likely queer friends of the women who raised him?
Men and women are inherently different and not interchangeable. Just ask queers.
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