Give us your tired, your poor...except in South Carolina!
In an effort to have all of its homeless people sheltered on the outskirts of town (last year the city criminalized being homeless--out of sight, out of mind) the city of Columbia, South Carolina is enforcing an ages old ordinance requiring groups of 25 or more to get a permit and pay a large fee before congregating. This just "happens" to affect a charity called Food Not Bombs (bet that name goes over well in the land of cotton) which has been feeding hungry people every Sunday for the last twelve years.
A Gallup poll showed South Carolina to be the sixth most religious state in America--but, for all their religiousness, Jesus Christ would not have been able to feed the five thousand with a few loaves and few fish in Columbia, South Carolina.
Unless, of course, he had a couple hundred dollars for a permit.
Peace,
emaycee
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