More than 50 people stood outside the Enoch Pratt Library’s Southeast Anchor branch on a recent spring morning in Baltimore. Parents with small children, teenagers, and senior citizens clustered outside the door and waited to hear their ticket numbers called.
They weren’t there for books—at least, not at that moment. They came to shop for groceries.
Connected to the library, the brightly painted market space is small but doesn’t feel cramped. Massive windows drench it in sunshine. In a previous life, it was a café. Now, shelves, tables, counters, and a refrigerator are spread out across the room, holding a mix of produce and shelf-stable goods.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/colorado/news/rock-church-lawsuit-colorado-free-exercise-religion-burdened-castle-rock-homeless/
Here’s another one. There are cases of places banning charity all over the place. Hell, you can’t give out bottles of water to people stuck in line outside in Georgia if they happen to be voting. They cut social programs and claim churches/charities will pick up the slack, and then attack said churches/charities.
My point is here that conservatives will simply attack anything they feel is in their way. They simply want control. They want homeless people to be homeless because “they deserve to be homeless”. They have absolutely no problem attacking charitable efforts, even if it has no impact on them whatsoever. They want to maintain the social hierarchy they feel should be in place.
Hayek just hated homeless people?
Have you read any of his books or delved into that side seriously at all, or is this a hunch?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Colorado is a firmly blue state these days. Doesn’t mean the town can’t have a Republican mayor (I’m sure some still do), but unfortunately the city website doesn’t mention his party affiliation.
Douglas County is a Republican area in Colorado. In between the very red area of Colorado Springs and blue Denver. These are conservative policies.
Is your contention that conservatives aren’t doing these things? They literally voted down the bill that cut child poverty in half. What the hell are we arguing about here?
Unfortunately, the article doesn’t provide any further sources about the incident, so we have to trust the author to not have omitted any inconvenient facts in order to sell a story. Which, after seeing the details on the previous one, I’m not willing to do.
The devil is unfortunately always in the details, so I don’t feel comfortable making a judgment in this case. I do think it’s important to help people get back on their feet, and I appreciate these pastors’ willingness to help, but it has to be done in a way that doesn’t put an excessive burden on the community as a whole by creating safety hazards for other people.
Great start! Before continuing the rest of your sentence, please back up two commas and ask the question “where did our society fail in supporting this person to cause them to fall?” But the devil’s after that second comma, because
A community in a society concerned about supporting these people from the beginning, not just trying to fix the most visible symptom, would not see the presence of a fellow human being as a ‘safety hazard’ or ‘burden’ but would rightly see it as a failure of their society to take care of the vulnerable.