{"id":20265,"date":"2013-08-28T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20265"},"modified":"2013-08-28T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:18:03","slug":"laws-without-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20265","title":{"rendered":"Laws Without Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2013\/August\/Ministry-Banned-from-Handing-Out-Food-to-Homeless\/\">CBN News<\/a> reported today that Love Wins Ministries, a ministry that serves breakfast to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Homelessness\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">homeless people<\/a> in a downtown part in Raleigh, North Carolina, has been banned from handing out food.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Hugh Hollowell, the group&#8217;s leader had to explain to 70 people standing in line on Saturday that he could not feed them without being arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The police were enforcing a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Local ordinance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Local_ordinance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">city ordinance<\/a> that bans the distribution of food in any of the city&#8217;s parks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Love Wins had permission to set up on the sidewalk as long as they didn&#8217;t block it and cleaned up after themselves. Now they will need to get a permit that costs $800 a day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The city ordinance will be discussed Wednesday in town hall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I understand that the city might not want to encourage homelessness, but the fact is that homelessness is already here. I would think that the city would appreciate the fact that Love Wins is engaged in feeding the homeless&#8211;helping the city in that effort. Hopefully on Wednesday common sense will prevail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=0dcc126f-add6-4d93-9edd-ac913003b936\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBN News reported today that Love Wins Ministries, a ministry that serves breakfast to homeless people in a downtown part in Raleigh, North Carolina, has been banned from handing out food. Rev. Hugh Hollowell, the group&#8217;s leader had to explain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5274,6204,6207,625,6206,5107,6205,6208,4679],"class_list":["post-20265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-homelessness","tag-local-ordinance","tag-love-wins-ministries","tag-north-carolina","tag-raleigh","tag-raleigh-north-carolina","tag-raleigh-police-department","tag-rev-hugh-hollowell","tag-saturday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20266,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions\/20266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}