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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Christian run homeless shelters routinely make worship and unpaid labor mandatory if you want to stay there. Otherwise they kick you to the streets.

Some even demand that you don't seek employment (so they can exploit your unpaid labor indefinitely).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The place where I live requires unpaid labor too. I don't get why Mom has such a problem with Doritos dust. Let it lie, I say!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is a funny comment but in no way is a homeless shelter doing that okay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

~~Yeah, Christians are famously compassionate towards the poor...~~

Edit: Oops

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I wasn't saying they aren't doing it, I was saying it's not okay. The person I was commenting to was trivializing it by comparing it to doing chores at home.

[–] machinin 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some even demand that you don't seek employment (so they can exploit your unpaid labor indefinitely).

I'm gonna' need a citation for that one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Happily: https://thebaffler.com/latest/between-a-rock-and-a-god-place-whitcomb

Once an individual is accepted, they must comply with all of the “house rules,” or “sacred covenant,” which hammer home the conditional nature of the charity on offer. In exchange for a bunk for thirty days, individuals are required to work without pay for six hours a day, six days a week. Jobs include working for various Mission business ventures and cleaning streets downtown—for which the Mission, but not the resident, is compensated. During this thirty-day period, residents are not permitted to look for outside work, which all but forecloses the hope of acquiring secure housing. For Dolores Nevin—who once went to the Mission with a torn rotator cuff and was turned away when she couldn’t work—disabilities that prevent you from “participating in daily Mission life” effectively bar you from staying there.

[–] machinin 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Absolutely 100% true for some, probably most, Christian run homeless shelters. Untrue for some (likely a minority) of homeless shelters. I've got no qualms about shitting on shitty Christians being asshats - I just have a problem generalizing this to everything.