Minute of Support Recorded on February 9, 2025
Richland Monthly Meeting would like to add its support for the lawsuit that Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, along with other yearly meetings and individual meetings, has filed against the Department of Homeland Security regarding the possible placement of agents of enforcement in houses of worship. Our Meeting agrees that this kind of activity disrupts worship, instills fear, and is unconstitutional. It is heartening to know that Friends are willing to stand up for their beliefs, as this lawsuit indicates.
Richland Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends supports Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for their decision to join with other Friends Meetings in bringing a lawsuit to block the US Department of Homeland Security from allowing federal immigration enforcement officials to enter houses of worship for their immigration enforcement actions. We endorse PYM’s position that the Court should “declare unconstitutional any policy permitting government agents to carry out immigration enforcement at or near houses of worship when the policy is limited only by individual agents’ subjective ‘common sense.’
Sincerely,
The Clerk Team
Elizabeth McGlinchey, Sharon Weber, Brenda Stokes and Linda Cooper
Richland Monthly Meeting
Quakertown, PA
