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The article should be titled "City politicians upset that local church opposed to their plan to criminalize poverty"
Or "City officials upset that local Christian community actually acts Christian."
They’re just upset he’s worshipping the wrong Jesus
Exactly this is the same bullshit as arresting people for feeding starving homeless
It’s fucking sick
where are the riots for better wages, housing, better public services, for actual politicians that are public servants out to do right for the citizens they themselves depend on, for worker's rights, or for anything?
what happened to the US?
We can’t do that cause that’s sOcIaLiSm (sarcasm)
We're also really tired from our demanding jobs. Most of us also can't just suddenly take time off work to protest these things.
Plus it's effort driving from our homes to wherever the protests may be.
I'm being partially facetious here, but these all play a factor in this.
The only time I've ever heard of a protest was after the fact. Hard to join without a time machine.
If you want to get in on protests check out news reports for organization names and get in contact. They'd love to have more people.
You don't know about them because the media either refuses to cover them or misrepresents them.
For example, consider the shitshow going on around Cop City in Atlanta: the police have already murdered one protestor in cold blood, the mayor is thwarting a public referendum, etc.
Entitled dumb as shit boomers are what happened. You know the ones; they love mob stories and cops and robbers and cowboys and indians and oh are they SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SMART!
Why aren't you personally doing something?
Downvoting me won't solve the world's problems.
Judging by their wording, it sounds like they are from somewhere other than the US. What do you expect a foreigner to do that could possibly affect US domestic policy?
I'm sure Jesus would be very proud of the city officials. /s
Though I see your point, I'd rather have less Jesus in our government, not more.
The government should not block him from exercising his religion though. Housing the people experiencing homelessness is exactly what Jesus would do.
Fully agree.
The people that want Jesus in government behave nothing like what Jesus would if he were ACTUALLY in government
Having less Jesus is what causing this isn't it?
No, people being assholes is what caused this. Mega corporations are what caused this. Jesus is a fairy tale no different than Snow White. People are what can make the world better or worse, not some mythical being or spell.
By Jesus i meant his basic teachings like feed the poor
Jesus is a fairy tale no different than Snow White
Eh, I mean, there is a real historical figure that the bible character is based on. The miracles obviously didn't happen, but there's reasonable debate to be had about how much of the other stuff regarding his teachings is accurate to the real person.
Lol no
people experiencing homelessness
How is that term better than "homeless people"
I think the logic is that the latter is saying that being homeless is part of who they are as a person, whereas the former sees them as regular people who are currently experiencing homelessness. It's like how people are shifting away from saying "drug addict," and saying things like "person addicted to drugs" or saying "undocumented" instead of "illegal" as it's less dehumanizing.
It's a small, subtle difference, but I get it.
This is it exactly. It's known as "person-first" or "people-first" language, and it's a way to be kind toward people with how one uses words. Not a bad habit to get into.
It isn't, unhoused is the best I've heard personally.
Both makes it clear that the problem is housing and acknowledges that the "homeless" often do have homes of a sort.
The phrase is trying to emphasize that being unhoused is a temporary condition that can be remedied but it's just too unwieldy in conversation to do anything but annoy people.
Where are homeless people actually supposed to go?
No, Mr. Loom. I expect them to die.
Around here, apparently, miles outside of town. All the bridges have 'no trespassing' signs by them (in English and Spanish, and this is Indiana). I live outside of town and I regularly see people walking down the highway to get to their crappy minimum wage jobs. It probably takes them over an hour to walk, and it was -15 here last week.
So apparently where they're supposed to go is a tent out in the woods.
Oddly enough, there's an established homeless shelter right next door to this church. Based on their sign and name, they're also faith based. Were they full? Did they turn some people away for reasons of their own?
I'm just very curious to hear more.
Away
they are supposed to scare the middle class into not risking their livelihoods.
This is sadly correct.
police department saw a spike in calls for service in May 2023 regarding "inappropriate activity" at Dad's Place spanning criminal mischief, trespassing, overdose, larceny, harassment, disturbing the peace and sexual assault.
Sounds like it wasn't a problem until certain individuals started doing stupid stuff.
Now the question is : how many calls were placed?
They claim they saw more calls. I'm gonna call bullshit.
police department saw a spike in calls for service in May 2023
The city became aware that Dad's Place was housing people in November
Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, by their own admission it took their ace detectives 6 months of responding to calls before realizing what was happening there?
And: were those calls placed b the same people who then just happy to have a say in zoning violations.
"Y'all motherfuckers need Jesus!"
Just call it an “Airbnb”. That’s how homeowners get around zoning laws.
This could actually be a genius loophole. Charge some absurdly low fee as an "air bnb".