Daniel 7: 1-18 (links validated 9/18/25a)

Just consider for example, Sarah McBride, the new young congresswoman from Delaware and from the transgender community of which she is a part. Sarah McBride isn’t a cause cèlébre for me. She is a longtime and personal friend of mine. She patiently taught me everything I know about transgender people and their experiences. We were colleagues together at a progressive think tank downtown. Her boyfriend also happened to be on our team, a brilliant young lawyer who fought off cancer and fully recovered. Then a year or so later went to the doctor with a persistent sore throat and was told his cancer had returned and he had two weeks to live. They asked me to marry them, and I did, on that next Sunday. We, colleagues and friends, orchestrated a beautiful ceremony on the roof of their apartment building, because Andy was deteriorating so fast he could never have made the trip elsewhere. It was a heartbreakingly beautiful and sacred wedding. Andy died four days later, and on Saturday we buried him out of St. Thomas Parish in DuPont Circle. And through it all, Sarah was brave and strong and fully present to her beloved husband...

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