A protest in Hartford Wednesday by some 200 clergy members, religious activists and others marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq started with prayer and song and ended with the arrest of five protesters, who blocked an entrance to the Federal Building on Main Street.
The act of civil disobedience was a way of following their faith and of calling attention to the carnage of the war, said the Rev. Kathleen McTigue, senior minister at the Unitarian Society in New Haven, moments before she and the others were taken into custody.
"It is a way of putting our bodies in the way of business as usual and business as usual is killing people," she said.
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