Doylestown Friends Meeting honors the Religious Society of Friends’ practice of gathering together to seek that of God in everyone, a practice rooted in the open doors of our meetinghouse inviting and welcoming every person who seeks to worship among us. It is antithetical to Quaker belief that anyone should reside in fear among us. It is contrary to the First Amendment to the US Constitution that such fear should obstruct this “free exercise” of worship.
Our Meeting supports the litigation begun by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, in conjunction with other Religious Society of Friends’ Meetings against the Department of Homeland Security, whose recent actions have defied a long history sparing religious houses from raids by immigration enforcement agents. Our meetinghouse doors must remain joyfully open so that there might exist no barrier between people’s hearts and their closeness to God.
We further applaud Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for swiftly and courageously forging this path for all other faiths to follow their example. Our Meeting remains in gratitude to the leadership of the Yearly Meeting for acting to secure the sanctity of sacred spaces and to embrace the individual worth of our immigrant neighbors.
In Peace,
Doylestown Friends Meeting
