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I heard a representative from the church last week on the radio state that although they expected a fine, they are hoping that like in the past, one will not be given to them.

Just another example of a law being on the books, but not being enforced.

hmmmm...that's troubling.

If the law doesn't apply to everyone equally, then it means nothing (or possibly that the Revolutionary War was fought for no particular reason other than for the colonists to get away from home for awhile)

If you or I happened to own a large tract of property in or near a heavily populated area, and decided that we wanted to invite the most undesirable and criminally-oriented group of people on the planet to stay on our land in tents with minimal sanitation we would be shut down and jailed in a New York minute. We could caterwaul all day long about how we are being 'compassionate' to those 'less fortunate' but at the end of the day we wouldn't have a leg to stand on because we would be destroying the quality of life for everyone else in the vicinity. It's possible that we could also be prosecuted for aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise if it could be shown that there was ongoing illegal drug, sexual or alcohol activity , regardless of our noble intentions.

For these people to wantonly destroy the community and then hide behind their church for protection is reprehensible. If they want to provide housing for 'homeless' people, fine. They can buy a dedicated tract of property far enough away from population so that any criminality won't be an issue, and then bus them to and from the employment office in the nearest town under strict guard. This would allow them to help while protecting the community, which is made up of people who have worked long and hard, sometimes for generations, to be able to buy a nice home in that particular neighborhood. These hardworking people don't deserve to have their life's efforts soiled by the unspeakable effluvia and criminality generated by the 'homeless'.