GRM is a Christian ministry that requires all residents to work for them without pay for “six hours a day, six days a week in exchange for a bunk for 30 days.” They also cannot look for outside work during that month. That’s not all though. They must also attend church every Sunday (from a pre-approved list); Unitarian services are not acceptable. And they have to attend a chapel service twice a day. And they can’t smoke or drink. And they can’t have sex during their stay
So it’s a cult. Why are cults allowed to pull crap like this? This kind of thing should be prosecuted.
Because it serves the interests of partisan leadership within the state. Loyal foot soldiers desperate enough to bend the knee for this shitty deal are an invaluable human resource that private industry and fascist activism seeks to cultivate.
To be clear it was a specific ministry, the Gospel Rescue Mission, who seem to be militant-crusader-forced-conversion-fundamentalist types in terms of their worship.
It’s telling that there’s literally zero mention of “God” anywhere in the brief—which is rather unusual for a Christian group making an argument to the Supreme Court. Especially this Supreme Court. The argument isn’t a religious one because how could it be? The ministry says they have beds available, but for various reasons, many of them are going unused. They must know how bad it would look to justify the cruelty against the homeless using the language of faith. Yet they seem blissfully unaware of how their own religious restrictions may play a significant role in why people with no other options still don’t want to ask them for help.
Don’t do that. They’re Christians because they said so, there is no standard or membership card. To act like the bad ones aren’t “real Christians” is a cop out and ignores the problems within your religion. Own it, fix it, re-educate your fellow believers, don’t act like they’re not real and sweep them under the rug.
You may have gotten the impression that I’m claiming their religion. I do not. I just figure they all specifically worship a guy who was definitely homeless and born in a barn.
The same right as every other Christian who has believed in and committed atrocities over the last 2000 years- they worship Christ.
You don’t have to follow your religious leader’s teachings to worship them.
Most of the Germans who participated in the Holocaust called themselves Christians. Some devoutly said their nightly prayers and went to church every Sunday.
Translation: Whatever “sin” one conducts has none of the consequences, which have been well described and in short, have nothing to do with real life, and one must be accepted by the community via the magic word invocation.
All the rest is just nonsense for anyone intelligent enough to ask questions.
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