Reflections on my time as a Palm Beach (Lake Worth) Quaker

  Rabbi Silver, I learned of your call to action at the Palm Beach Quaker meeting. I am the sole individual opposing the Palm Beach Quakers joining PROTECT democracy. Of course, nothing is stopping individuals in Palm Beach Quakers from joining PROTECT democracy individually. But my concerns and questions in response to your call to action is below.  You wrote “an entire political party supports insurrection and threatens the liberty and natural beauty that we cherish in America.” what political party are you talking about? what specific ways does this party support insurrection? what liberty and natural beauty is threatened? You wrote “In Florida, Governor DeSantis seeks to impose a right wing, Christian theocracy upon the rest of us” what makes you think that he seeks to impose a right wing, Christian theocracy? You wrote “They seek to replace democracy with demagoguery” what specific comments or legal/political action supports your viewpoint? who is ‘they’? You are aware th...

Rabbi Barry Silver wrote the following to invite Palm Beach Quakers to be listed as a member of his organization PROTECT Democracy: Hello fellow progressive activists: On this Memorial Day, our basic rights and freedoms are under attack. Patriotic Americans fought and died to preserve our freedom, while today, an entire political party supports insurrection and threatens the liberty and natural beauty that we cherish in America. In Florida, Governor DeSantis seeks to impose a right wing, Christian theocracy upon the rest of us, dismantling the separation of church and state, which the founders of this nation established to ensure that the soil of America would not be soaked in blood as it was in Europe. They seek to replace democracy with demagoguery, education with indoctrination and to torch our freedoms rather than let the torch of freedom burn brightly as a beacon of hope for the world. Learning nothing from the past, they threaten to reinstate the horrors of yesterday by aligning ...