A Protestant minister who was ordained at the Metropolitan Community Church of D.C., which is part of the worldwide LGBTQ Christian denomination Universal Fellowship of MCC Churches and who describes herself a strong LGBTQ ally, has announced her candidacy for the D.C.
Congressional Delegate seat in the city’s June 2022 Democratic primary. Rev. Wendy Hamilton, who would be challenging longtime D.C.
Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton if Norton runs for re-election, declared her candidacy for the delegate seat at a Jan.
30 ceremony in front of the statue of famed black civil rights advocate Mary McLeod Bethune in D.C.’ s Lincoln Park near Capitol Hill. “I am running for Congress because there is a need for a fundamental change in