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Zach Wahls Tells Ellen: Lawmakers ‘Are Supposed To Protect Us’

Zach Wahls, son of two gay moms in Iowa, already gives me the tingles. Appearing on Ellen, with his mom Terry in the audience, Zack says of the men and women he addressed on Feb. 2, “The scary part about that for me is that they’re lawmakers, they’re supposed to protect us, not take our rights away.” Wahls says he’s heard from plenty of folks after his speech hit the web, including a fella “raised in the deep South” who’s shipping off to Afghanistan anxious about the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and whose mind has changed. Goosebumps!

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