But many of the homeless do not respond rationally. Many are drug addicts/habitual drunkards/mentally ill people who threaten each other as well as anyone who approaches them, and who set up repellent, unsafe and unsanitary conditions at any handy doorway rather than go voluntarily to clean, safe, free shelters. I'm sure the Catholic Church in SF has paid out far more $$ for the shelters than for the sprinklers.
Seriously --- I ask this with real concern --- what would you do if they were camping out, urinating, defecating, and ingesting drugs and alcohol at the doors of your home, church, or place of business?
This is an acceptable practice in other building in SF.
Just another attack on Christians.
The DID NOT put up warning signs, they wanted to drench the sleeping homeless and wet their belongings.
You keep paying down irrelevant information about unrelated topics, when this church and it’s actions are the topic.
They have been busted, God knows how much money they paid for all this or why they wanted to get the homeless wet, rather than put up a warning.
As a man of the cloth (or not) would I first spend a lot of money on an illegally installed, unpermitted plumbing system and deliberately post no warning, so that I could ambush the homeless in their sleep and wet them and their winter clothes and sleeping materials down, in winter, (or summer)?
I wouldn't do that, I have never handled my problems with the homeless like that.