Free Exercise of religion is a huge threat to the socialists, atheists, etc., so they desperately want it dumbed down to ‘freedom to worship’.
Free Exercise means we can practice our religion 24/7/365 whenever or wherever or however and it is not under the purview of government whatsoever.
‘Free Worship’ means you can meet in your worship building and sing whatever hymn you want.
‘Free Exercise’ means you can be a Christian all the time as you live your life.
I’m a Christian and support the free exercise of religion.
But what restraints if any are appropriate?
For example, I do share my faith. But with a bullhorn in a neighborhood at 3 am?
Similarly feeding folks - if I want to give someone a sandwich I say I should be allowed. But should I set up a thrice daily feeding operation for folks at a neighborhood park? I have been to some of these things. The crazy and high come out in droves. Is that right for the people in that neighborhood, the non-crazy and non-high that want to use the park, the kids of course? I don’t take my kids to homeless centers. People are very aggressive there.
So what reasonable restraints are there, if any?
If there is not a local program set up for street people, I would agree that providing food to people on the street might be a good idea.
If there is a mission or some such outlet for these people, they should be guided to get services there.
Any well meaning churches can donate there at will. They can also deliver food to poor people in homes that need assitance.
What the city is trying to do, is keep all the homeless in one area. They don’t want well meaning people to help the homeless so much that it will attract the homeless from other towns in the region.
If there is a city ordinance against this, Christians should abide by it. Either that or they need to challenge the city officials at the local city council meetings.
Absent that, they can also go to court to challenge the city, if there is no resource for the hungry homeless people.
Not every decision that goes against what “we or good people” want to do, is evil.
If the homeless got so prolific in my area, I wouldn’t want them congregating on my street, sleeping under trees or bushes nearby.
This is the sort of thing they are trying to prevent.
bkmk
These are the very same liberals that vote this trash in to office.