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...
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.
The group they are associated with is the “Church of the Valley” which appears to advertise itself as a “non-denominational organization” of about 40 Oregon churches.
