Idaho minister found guilty of trespassing at a protest of anti-trans bills to serve no jail time
The Rev. Sara LaWall drops hearts down the rotunda of the Idaho State Capitol Building. Protestors on April 2, 2024, dropped 48,000 handmade hearts — meant to represent LGBTQ Idahoans — in protest of anti-LGBTQ legislation. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun)
An Idaho judge on Thursday ordered a Boise minister who was found guilty of misdemeanor trespass during a political protest to pay $357 in fines — but not serve more jail time.
The Rev. Sara LaWall, the minister for the Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, and eight others who were protesting bills restricting transgender rights were arrested this spring after refusing to leave the lobby to the office of Idaho Gov. Brad Little, whom the protestors said they were hoping to meet with. LaWall’s defense attorney cast her actions during the protest as an act of civil disobedience, an act that involves intentionally breaking laws for moral reasons.
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