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While people coast to coast were enjoying Sunday Brunch on July 21st, news apps on cell phones were dinging and signing and ringing everywhere. What was so universally urgent? Only the President of the United States, also his party’s presumed candidate for re-election, announcing that he wouldn’t run for another term after all. Speculation about how this harms or re-energizes his party, if the opposition will employ dirty tricks to prevent the Vice President from running for the top spot, if the Vice-President is electable, and if President Biden is victim or hero in this tale immediately began to spread like hot grease across social media. Is there a Queer faith perspective in all of this, and if so, how can it be a healing gift during this unpredictable time?