This pro-choice, pro-immigrant Mennonite could be Lancaster’s next member of Congress

LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA — Those outside of Pennsylvania’s Amish country may be surprised to hear of Lancastrians gathering to protest the Muslim ban, or standing in solidarity with Charlottesville, or demanding that their congressman hold a town hall on health care, or calling for a Dream Act. But that open-arms, open-door spirit is embedded into the state’s and county’s history.

Jess King knows that spirit well. The Pennsylvania native, who was born and rais...