Biden To Award Presidential Citizens Medal To Liz Cheney, Bennie Thompson, Marriage Equality Activists
The Washington Post reports:
President Joe Biden will honor former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney and 19 others on Thursday with the Presidential Citizens Medal, a tribute given to those who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or fellow Americans.
Alongside Cheney, Biden will award Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Mississippi), who served as the chairman of the Jan. 6 House select committee, with the Presidential Citizens Medal.
Other honorees include attorney Mary Bonauto, who fought to legalize same-sex marriage and argued before the Supreme Court in the landmark marriage-equality case Obergefell v. Hodges, and lawyer and activist Evan Wolfson, a leader of the marriage-equality movement.
Read the full article. I’m especially thrilled for Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom To Marry. The cult will scream.
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