New York City Orders Churches to Stop Sheltering Homeless People

This is just unbelievable. New York City has told twenty two churches that they may no longer shelter homeless people.

Let me write that again in case you thought that you misread it.

New York City has told twenty two churches that they may no longer shelter homeless people.

City officials have ordered 22 New York churches to stop providing beds to homeless people. With temperatures well below freezing early Saturday, the churches must obey a city rule requiring faith-based shelters to be open at least five days a week — or not at all. Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit that serves as a link with the city, said he had to tell the churches they no longer qualify. He said hundreds of people now won’t have a place to sleep.

I am not sure how the separation of church and state, that Thomas Jefferson wrote about to the Danbury Baptists in 1802 which was somehow subsequently interpreted into the constitution, would allow the state to tell a church that they can no longer help the homeless. But that is what they have done.

Perhaps the government is jealous because somebody else is able to help those that can’t help themselves. The government wants to be the sole provider of those who are less fortunate. That is what the big government nanny state is all about, government control through government dependency. They view the church as providing something that the government wants the people to rely on them for and they feel threatened. So they must stop the church from providing shelter to the homeless so that these people will have to look toward Big Brother for help.

Where these people go for help really should be of no concern to the government if they truly believed in helping them but they don’t. They only want them dependent on the government to insure building a voter base. I find this disgusting.

They care more about potential votes than the actual welfare of the people.