A homeless shelter wrote an amicus brief in the Grant’s Pass case.
They argued SCOTUS should let the city arrest the homeless because, and I am not shitting you, the ban on doing so meant less people were willing to abide by their “two church services a day and no sex” requirement to sleep inside.
Gorsuch literally wrote, in almost those exact same words, "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."
The Grant’s Pass Rescue Mission: “Pardon me, as the only shelter in this town we have a vested interest in allowing the government to threaten these people with arrest if they don’t want to join our church.”
Here’s a link to the Amicus brief the Grant’s Pass Gospel Rescue Mission filed. Yes, it is literally just “The cops should be able to force homeless people to choose between our program or charges.”
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...
I would like you to imagine me doing the John Oliver shocked/excitable face with an infographic of their logo above and to the side of my right shoulder.
The rules include not having sex even if you are married, and families will be split up, with men and women/children being housed in separate facilities. You are also expected to work at jobs assigned by the organization. It's not clear if there is any pay for this work.
Wanna take any bets on which high control Christian denomination they are before I try to find it? The possibilities are obviously endless, but for some reason it’s giving Free Will Baptist for me.
For an organization claiming to be Christian, they sure do lack any idea of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They remind me of that GOP Jesus video by Friend Dog Studios. They would probably watch it and not get that its making fun of them.
I remember the part in the Bible where Jesus says “For I was a stranger and you invited me in..”. Don’t remember Him talking about using Roman legionaries to force them in
And that whole turning over the tables of the moneylenders was OK, too because he was just showing everybody how to get more bribe money. Cf. Snyder v. U.S.
I know pointing out something seems unconstitutional in America is a pointless endeavour but I think its pretty fucked that a country that's not suppose to be a theocracy can leave entire system up to the church so they can then force many non Christian citizens to convert lest they be jailed.
Not to mention this is a religion that both forces subservience of women and think being queer is morally wrong. A good chunk of homeless people (especially youth) belong to one or both of those categories so methinks this should get international condemnation just on that basis alone.
"Given the choice, people would rather sleep outside than stay in our shelter, therefore we shouldn't give them a choice" is both a brutal self-own and the core of conservative ideology
We seem to be inching closer & closer to the point where the 1% just says "Fuck 'em - feed 'em all to the fishes." When that's done, we'll be fish food - and they'll have the 5% of the world that's still liveable all to themselves. And they'll have a shitload of fat fish to eat.
