Posted on 02/03/2022 1:12:09 PM PST by Twotone
A church in southwest Oregon is suing the city where it's located over a strange new local ordinance that limits the number of times per week the institution can serve free meals to needy residents.
What are the details? St. Timothy's Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Brookings, Oregon, last week, arguing the city violated the church's constitutional right to religious expression by barring it from serving the community, NPR reported.
For more than 75 years, the church has been serving its local community, often by providing services to people who are homeless, sick, or otherwise in need, the diocese noted in a press release. Perhaps most notably, the church has become a refuge for the hungry, frequently serving free meals to people in need from the church property.
St. Timothy's and other local churches are the only nonprofits in the city that provide meal services. And when other churches suspended their meal services during the early stages of the pandemic, St. Timothy's decided to up its offerings to six days a week, typically serving up to 70 people each lunchtime.
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Don’t they understand that the State is God and the only provider /s
Praise for the good work this church does.
West Coast Government’s are run by scumbags. I mean who the hell do they think they are?
What a ridiculously nasty ordinance.
So lets play devils advocate. Lets say the church down the street started feeding the homeless 3 meals a day, 7 days a week. Basically flung open the doors to whoever needed feeding. What do you think the neighborhood would look like in a few months?
A Church doing good work. Reaching out to the needy in the community with their own member voluntary donations.
And the State can’t tolerate it. Imagine that.
Absurd to the end. What an arbitrary dictate. Let them show the ‘science’ behind it and why another meal each day would make a difference.
Killing off Christians and Churches
Satan is pleased.
After all, he’s got to get his anti-messiah installed.
Plus that NWO and his OWR.
Global Citizen Festival, anyone?
Sick of homeless scum.
Do you like homeless? Because that’s how you get a whole bunch of homeless.
Not hungry?
More Democratic nonsense? These petty government officials ignore real problems unless it starts affecting them or their families.
Who is the Master and who is the Slave?
THAT’s the question.
Having volunteered at our local Gospel mission I can tell you that there our alot children that come though, the kids get served first, then the women and lastly the men. Not all are homeless but poor and hungry. They usually go for about an hour of service before eating and are the gospel.
Having volunteered at our local Gospel mission I can tell you that there our alot children that come though, the kids get served first, then the women and lastly the men. Not all are homeless but poor and hungry. They usually go for about an hour of service before eating and are hearing the gospel.
” What do you think the neighborhood would look like in a few months?”
Well, the homeless people would certainly look more well-fed.
Politics is local and local matters. In a big city, you’re going to have multiple providers.
Brookings Harbor is a town of a few thousand that is about 10 hours North of San Francisco and 8 hours from Portland. Eugene is only about 4 hours away, but I doubt you could fill a bus full of people to go to Brookings even if they were offering 3 hots and a cot.
I grew up a few hours north about a half hour away from the largest “Metropolitan” area on the Oregon coast, which is under 25,000.
If the people of good heart in a small local make a last stand around a single institution support them.
“Do you like homeless?”
“Like” isn’t really part of the equation. They’ve been commanded by God to LOVE the homeless, just like everyone else.
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