The phrasing isn’t my own: Way back in 1996, Beth Gilbert of Reform Judaism magazine, in an article about “ Gays & Lesbians Under the Chupah” (the traditional wedding canopy), wrote about Sophia and Deborah, a couple who had successfully petitioned for a second-parent adoption of their five-year-old daughter Rachel. The pharaoh’s daughter later “made him her son,” i.e., adopted the boy. His clever sister Miriam went up to the pharaoh’s daughter and offered to find a Hebrew wetnurse for the boy - unbeknownst to the pharaoh’s daughter, this wetnurse was his own birth mother. The pharaoh’s daughter found him and took pity on him, even though she guessed he was a Hebrew child. The mother tried to hide her son, but when she could no longer do so, put him in his now-famous basket and placed it among the reeds of the Nile. The Egyptian pharaoh, however, had ordered that all Hebrew boys were to be drowned. Moses and his sister Miriam, the story in Exodus tells us, were born to a Hebrew woman. Tonight is the first night of Passover, when Jews around the world gather to celebrate freedom from slavery in Egypt, under the leadership of a man who had two mommies.
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