Ministry threatened with arrest for feeding the homeless

[wrightway]

I coin tossed this for the Society or Religious forums. Mods, feel free to move if I got it wrong.

http://lovewins.info/2013/08/feeding-homeless-apparently-illegal-in-raleigh-nc/

So, this blog from a church group has been passed around Facebook today. The church group (who sound like the kind of Christians who actually follow their faith) claims that the cops are threatening to arrest them for feeding at risk people on the weekends. They claim they weren't given a clear reason (other than some murky hinting at a downtown revitalization plan) why a program they've been running for six years is suddenly against the law. I'm taking it with a grain of salt, but if it's true it's an awful misuse of power by the city.

[TheUnknown]

I coin tossed this for the Society or Religious forums. Mods, feel free to move if I got it wrong.

http://lovewins.info/2013/08/feeding-homeless-apparently-illegal-in-raleigh-nc/

So, this blog from a church group has been passed around Facebook today. The church group (who sound like the kind of Christians who actually follow their faith) claims that the cops are threatening to arrest them for feeding at risk people on the weekends. They claim they weren't given a clear reason (other than some murky hinting at a downtown revitalization plan) why a program they've been running for six years is suddenly against the law. I'm taking it with a grain of salt, but if it's true it's an awful misuse of power by the city.

Is a revitalization plan code for "we want the town to look better off than it really is, so we're going to treat the homeless like animals in the hopes that they'll wander to a new area when they're no longer being fed?"  Because I've heard of towns using similar tactics before in attempts to make the town more "presentable."

[SpaceProg]

I coin tossed this for the Society or Religious forums. Mods, feel free to move if I got it wrong.

http://lovewins.info/2013/08/feeding-homeless-apparently-illegal-in-raleigh-nc/

So, this blog from a church group has been passed around Facebook today. The church group (who sound like the kind of Christians who actually follow their faith) claims that the cops are threatening to arrest them for feeding at risk people on the weekends. They claim they weren't given a clear reason (other than some murky hinting at a downtown revitalization plan) why a program they've been running for six years is suddenly against the law. I'm taking it with a grain of salt, but if it's true it's an awful misuse of power by the city.

Is a revitalization plan code for "we want the town to look better off than it really is, so we're going to treat the homeless like animals in the hopes that they'll wander to a new area when they're no longer being fed?"  Because I've heard of towns using similar tactics before in attempts to make the town more "presentable."

From what I gather... Yes.

[wrightway]

What We Will Do

Simple: we will feed people. I am, after all (however imperfectly), a follower of Jesus, who said himself that when we ignore hungry people, we ignore him. The only question that remains is where we will do it.

We knew that with the upcoming revitalization of Moore Square, we would have to find alternative arrangements. We have been working to that end, but as the revitalization is currently unfunded, and has no start date, we felt we had some time.

Yeah, if this is all legit the city hasn't even begun the project. They're just hoping to starve at risk people out.

[Alehksunos]

BUT DON'T YOU SEE? FEEDING THOSE HOMELESS PEOPLE (WHO WANT TO STAY HOMELESS AND ARE TO LAZY TO GET A JOB) IS SOCIALISM! SOCIALISM!!!

[RavynousHunter]

What We Will Do

Simple: we will feed people. I am, after all (however imperfectly), a follower of Jesus, who said himself that when we ignore hungry people, we ignore him. The only question that remains is where we will do it.

We knew that with the upcoming revitalization of Moore Square, we would have to find alternative arrangements. We have been working to that end, but as the revitalization is currently unfunded, and has no start date, we felt we had some time.

Yeah, if this is all legit the city hasn't even begun the project. They're just hoping to starve at risk people out.

Naturally, one of the times a religious group does some actual fucking good for the world, it gets threatened with arrest by living incarnations of Snidely fucking Whiplash.

[Witchyjoshy]

What We Will Do

Simple: we will feed people. I am, after all (however imperfectly), a follower of Jesus, who said himself that when we ignore hungry people, we ignore him. The only question that remains is where we will do it.

We knew that with the upcoming revitalization of Moore Square, we would have to find alternative arrangements. We have been working to that end, but as the revitalization is currently unfunded, and has no start date, we felt we had some time.

Yeah, if this is all legit the city hasn't even begun the project. They're just hoping to starve at risk people out.

Naturally, one of the times a religious group does some actual fucking good for the world, it gets threatened with arrest by living incarnations of Snidely fucking Whiplash.

Fuck Snidely Whiplash, he's benign compared to this shit.

[PosthumanHeresy]

Is it sad that at this point, I'm thinking anarchy would be better than one more day of these fucknozzles?