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Respect for marriage, reconciliation and being seen on the White House lawn

Visibility has a cost, and enormous power. On Tuesday (Dec. 13), we stood together — Jeremy in his rainbow kippah, Laura in her clerical collar — on the White House lawn to bear witness as President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law. We had traveled from Boston, foremost as friends, but also as leaders in our respective Jewish and Christian communities. We were there to see this law be signed, and to celebrate, but also to be seen.

Read the op-ed by JCRC CEO Jeremy Burton and Rev. Laura Everett, executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches