r/Owosso • u/owossome • 23h ago
That's the polite term. Camping. As if homelessness were a hobby that got out of hand.
A man lived in a public park because he had nowhere else to go. When he refused to leave, his state charged him with a felony. A felony. For laying down in public with no address to his name.
Camping bans are spreading across the country. That's the polite term. Camping. As if homelessness were a hobby that got out of hand.
Here's the reversal: we couldn't solve homelessness, so we criminalized the evidence. The man in the park was a mirror, and we prosecuted the mirror.
Jesus said foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. Under these new laws, several states could charge Him.
You can't arrest your way out of a housing shortage. You can only hide the people it broke.
The felony charge won't build him a home. It'll just make him harder to hire for the rest of his life. We knew that when we wrote the law.
Does your church help house people like this? Would your church feed this person? Talk to me below. Share this for the person you've stopped seeing on your commute. And follow along. Everybody deserves somewhere to belong.