Quakers offer support to all LGBTQIA+ people

The Sandpoint (Idaho) Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) shares this statement of support and solidarity with all LGBTQIA+ people, following arrests of 31 people police labeled “white nationalists,” allegedly planning to disrupt the Pride in the Park event held by North Idaho Pride Alliance in Coeur d’Alene, June 11, 2022.

We affirm not just the legal and civil right of the CDA4Pride participants to assemble in mutual support, but also their moral right and their courage to do so, to raise up the struggle against injustice, discrimination and “othering...