{"id":135990,"date":"2018-03-27T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T01:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135990"},"modified":"2018-03-30T00:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T06:36:55","slug":"i-was-a-stranger-and-you-took-me-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/i-was-a-stranger-and-you-took-me-in.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was a stranger, and you took me in&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problems of the homeless are not trivial to solve, and not cheap, and not without risks &#8230; but by the same token, kicking the can (and the homeless) down the road, adopting a NIMBY attitude, running them out of town because they are addicts or crazy or poor or unseemly &#8230; and then (presumably) claiming to be an upstanding citizen, if not piously attending church on Sunday (or even Saturday) and considering oneself virtuous &#8230; seems highly inconsistent, if not irresponsible and cruel.<\/p>\n<p>(See Matt. 25:31-46 [<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/z86xFZ\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/z86xFZ<\/a>])<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/news\/2018\/03\/27\/81911\/oc-supervisors-bow-to-pressure-abandoning-plans-to\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/79IeBT0mfbiAhOFSNgw_gVoAsSMxxuPegF15bqpsEnaLagtu1MFxk-TmIvkg54QzLsMCaD-GBWRFWYSLyAreCsHBK1ZmE9N00-joh9qua9zsWNJumg=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/news\/2018\/03\/27\/81911\/oc-supervisors-bow-to-pressure-abandoning-plans-to\/\">Orange County approved \u2014 then caved \u2014 on a plan to shelter homeless people<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;No one wants to have or host this difficult population,&#8221; Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson said, echoing a dilemma facing elected officials everywhere. &#8220;Who&#8217;s willing to step up?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NWYBL2xcrfR\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problems of the homeless are not trivial to solve, and not cheap, and not without risks &#8230; but by the same token, kicking the can (and the homeless) down the road, adopting a NIMBY attitude, running them out of town because they are addicts or crazy or poor or unseemly &#8230; and then (presumably) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/i-was-a-stranger-and-you-took-me-in.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;I was a stranger, and you took me in&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,528,358,376],"tags":[1462,1463],"class_list":["post-135990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","tag-homeless","tag-nimby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/homeless.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48556,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/26\/nimby-maps-and-the-hollywood-sign.html","url_meta":{"origin":135990,"position":0},"title":"NIMBY, Maps and the Hollywood Sign","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Nov-14 11:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite all the years Iived in SoCal (and still being a frequent visitor), I confess I really don't have a huge desire to see much of the Hollywood Sign.But apparently a lot of people do ... which has led to some interesting (re)actions from the local residents.'So what's happening in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27004,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/apparently-feeding-the-poor-and-sheltering-the-homeless-arent-enough-any-mo.html","url_meta":{"origin":135990,"position":1},"title":"Apparently feeding the poor and sheltering the homeless aren&#39;t enough any mo&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Mar-12 2:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently feeding the poor and sheltering the homeless aren't enough any moreWhy else would the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento defund a homeless shelter over the beliefs of its director, who has spoken out in favor of marriage equality and abortion? 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