Police say dozens of men from the white supremacist group piled into a U-Haul truck wearing balaclavas and bearing riot gear, with plans to instigate a riot at the park where families, children and supporters were gathered to celebrate the LGBTQ community. WATCH: 2021 has set a record in anti-trans bills in America Heather Scott, told an audience that drag queens and other LGBTQ supporters are waging “a war of perversion against our children.”Ī toxic brew of hateful rhetoric has been percolating in Idaho and elsewhere around the U.S., well ahead of the arrests of the Patriot Front members at the pride event Saturday in Coeur d’Alene. BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A few weeks before 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested for allegedly planning to riot at a northern Idaho LGBTQ pride event, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his Boise congregation that gay, lesbian and transgender people should be executed by the government.Īround the same time, a lawmaker from the northernmost region of the state, Republican Rep.
