The police raid of a UK Quaker meeting house has backfired, not surprisingly

Reposted from Waging Nonviolence: read the original here.

Like generations of Quaker children, I grew up with stories of when our faith was persecuted. Under the Quaker Act of 1662, Quaker meetings were raided for no better reason than people gathering there, and the children kept the meetings when their parents were jailed.