Editor, Gazette-Journal:
In a week dominated by major governmental changes, two women deserve the spotlight.
On the day after the inauguration, at a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, the Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, asked the President of the United States to show mercy to undocumented immigrants, and to gay, lesbian and transgender people. Her plea followed new executive orders targeting those segments of the population, and she pointed out that gay, lesbian, and transgender youth now fear for their lives, and immigrant families live in fear of being separated from one another.
Meanwhile in Idaho, Pamela Hemphill said publicly she won’t take a pardon for her participation in the 2021 Insurrection. Clashes with other insurrectionists led her to read more about what led up to that day, and she has had to face the truth that the 2020 election was not stolen, and that she had accepted lies. But she also recognized that far...