we have a program here that I help with called Maureen's Haven (named after the nun who started it) and all winter long each night a local church opens its doors to the homeless. Some open more often than others, and it's well organized so they get dinner, breakfast, bus tickets and a bag lunch. And a warm, safe place to sleep.

Nobody, NOBODY, dares mess with the program. And politics are laid aside-- I work well with Republicans and Conservatives who believe in the program as I do.

Now, if indeed the church in question here is unsafe, it should be completely shut down until the problems are corrected, but closing down one program is cruel an unusual.

But like I said this smells of NIMBY BS.

if that picture in the article (you never know with Huffpo) is the church in question it could be disliked for just existing as the rural/suburban version of a storefront church.

OTOH, maybe the church is running a scam and this is the only legal way they can figure out to shut it down.

When an article is written with an emotional slant, you just never know...

"Judge not that ye be not judged, " a concept expressed repeatedly and in a variety of ways (e.g., that only one who is sinless has the right to stone another sinner--which means nobody has that right). But of course the fundamentalists ignore that rule, too, and spend all their time and energy judging and "stoning" others for their supposed sins.