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.”
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.
