Posted on 08/01/2014 9:13:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A Methodist church in West Virginia was stymied in its efforts to help the needy last week when the county health department told them their plan violated state health codes.
The parishioners at First United Methodist Church had decided to install a large refrigerator outside their building that those in need could access at any time. Anticipating concerns about food safety, they planned to stock it with only prepackaged food, and built a cage around it to prevent small children from climbing inside.
“We just wanted a way for more people to have access to food, along with some privacy and a little dignity,” Rev. Shauna Hyde told the Charleston Gazette. “It was just a wild idea.”
Too wild for one bad samaritan, who filed an anonymous complaint with the Jackson County Health Department before the fridge had even been stocked. Two days after they set it up, the man came knocking on their door. …
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No good deed shall go unpunished by nanny government.
You must either suck the government tit or die.
“We just wanted a way for more people to have access to food, along with some privacy and a little dignity,” Rev. Shauna Hyde told the Charleston Gazette. “It was just a wild idea.”
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Dumb idea, Shauna, dumb idea.
I’m surprised it wasn’t stolen or vandalized before the gubmint stepped in.
I agree with the health department on this one. They may have saved the church a big lawsuit down the line from bad food inserted into the unmanned refrigerator by a troll that sickens or kills someone else, or from the inevitable malfunction of an outdoor refrigerator. Sorry: people who need help that badly need to line up inside the church, and view all the pictures of Jesus and Ten Commandments posters while they are waiting.
Amen.
More proof liberals do not really care about the poor.
Don’t you just love snitches? Of course, snitches often end up in ditches.
In this instance, the Health Dept is correct. Leaving a fridge outside, unmanned is an invitation for catastrophe.
Just stop and think a minute about the people who might go to that fridge and the hygiene involved with a lot of them.
They don’t care if they open a package and take some out or put half eaten stuff back in there.
And, as the article says, it just isn’t a good idea to have a fridge out in the elements.
Good intentions need to be tempered by common sense and a little real world savvy.
Henry VIII pulled this same kind of sh*t as a means of breaking the Catholic Church in England. Only the government was allowed to dispense charity.
Or the person who finds weenies two months past expiration in their own fridge and thinks, “I don’t want to throw this out... I’ll stick it in that church fridge. The homeless won’t mind if it’s a bit old.”
The only way to help the poor is to develop a relationship with them and listen to them, one by one. And then help them get to a new level of life. Anything else is a temporary band-aid. Food pantries and diaper drives serve a purpose, but they don’t help deliver hurting people out of their circumstances.
Did you know that we Ricardians (friends of Richard the Third, the very interesting Catholic king) have estimated 72,000 subjects were killed by Henry 8? True!
Since when is a government agency “correct”? Who would frequent that fridge but only “the people who might go to” it?
And a rainbow in the background . . . amazing.
No wonder they had a government agency breathing down their necks.
When I see “Rev.” = I’m already suspicious.
When I see “Shauna” after “Rev”, I’m double-plus suspicious.
Oh, also when I see FUMC, (first united meth ch.) - that’s a tipoff....
FUMC: United in liberalism, but the sheeple don’t know it.
The rainbow should give her a free pass.
Excellent post! Food for the body, but Living Water for the soul, that can best be delivered face-to-face.
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