Posted on 11/23/2008 6:07:17 AM PST by freemike
Is this not just the perfect example of the pure outright evil of socialist government? They create conditions that increase the homeless(emptying psych. hospitals, destroying jobs, interfering with markets, seizing wealth, dumbing down education),, a very real problem arises that they deny exists (freezing winter temperatures) and they order the one group of people who are helping freely to stop!!
Here you have homeless people freezing in the cold, no one is suppose to be freezing in the cold because the socialists say the earth is melting from global warming!!! Cold is not suppose to exist!!!
They mock Christians! They attack the church! Here Christians are opening their doors to offer warmth and a bed for free to the homeless,, doing it cheaper and better and with real compassion and the state orders them to stop!!
The Church is a threat to the state. Competition for allegiance.
NYC Churches Ordered Not To Shelter Homeless NEW YORK (CBS) ― City officials have ordered 22 New York churches to stop providing beds to homeless people. With temperatures well below freezing early Saturday, the churches must obey a city rule requiring faith-based shelters to be open at least five days a week -- or not at all. Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit that serves as a link with the city, said he had to tell the churches they no longer qualify. He said hundreds of people now won't have a place to sleep. The Department of Homeless Services said the city offers other shelters with the capacity to accept all those who have been sleeping in the churches. The city had 8,000 beds waiting."linktostory
That does seem to be part of the issue. The city has "beds waiting," but the homeless would apparently rather stay at churches.
I wonder if the city gets extra state or federal money for each homeless-shelter bed occupied, the way schools get money from state and feds for bodies in the seats.
The Churches should tell Bloomberg to get lost.Helping the poor and homeless is a part of their ministry.Remind that dictator of the separation of church and state clause that he’s so fond of quoting when it serves his purpose.
sure they do. They get to justify their budgets by saying that we filled 8000 beds and last year we only filled 4000........ so we need more money, a bigger budget and more "staff". Get it... ?
create a problem and then get paid to solve it....but never solve it so you are continually employed off the government nipple.
Thanks for the response. I’m not surprised ... only surprised that I hadn’t thought of it sooner :-).
I should always read the replies, I swear, everytime I do reply someone has already said it, I guess great minds really do think alike.
In the past the church was the main source of charity. It was local, it was voluntary, and the people who administered it took a real interest in actually helping the recipients. And if such providers “worked themselves out of a job”, then fine. When the state started to take over many of the charity functions, it was as a self serving bureaucracy. The state did not want to help those it was “helping”, the bureaucrats deliberately fostered dependence. And now anything done by the church and other faith based charities will be seen as competitors, rivals, threats to the self serving state bureaucracy.
Remove God from the public and society then Governments become the new god.
I'll bet that's it.
Voluntary charity is a direct threat to the State’s effort to justify taxation to pay for the very pathologies it has caused.
This never would have occurred to me until I read a controversial California court decision some time ago -- in which it was explained very clearly why Catholic Charities isn't a "religious" organization in any sense of the term.
Maybe the homeless feel safer sleeping in a church than at a government-run hostel.
It’s like ordering someone to not bring a stranger in from the cold.
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