As someone who was raised Quaker (religious society of friends) outside of philly and did a ton of volunteering as a high school kid with AFSC...this sucks. I dont know much about the organization any more and my own politics have moved away from pacifism. However- these are generally well meaning folks who are deeply anti-authoritarian and it's a bummer to see them in this situation. I think a ton about this is laughable and ridiculous- my honest intention here is simply to try and impress upon folks that Quakers look dumb as hell from this article, and they are pretty solid people generally(east coast quakers at least...mid west gets pretty 'it is only through the blood of christ that you shall be redeemed' style stuff)- regularly arrested by local PDs; spied on by the feds; do not accept hierarchy; believe that all humans have the same access to the divine; totally anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist ideology; almost any quaker under 60 is just like a spiritual an-com... I dont know why I needed/wanted to say all that...