In Houston, a new ordinance for libraries outlaws sleeping on tables, eating, bathing in the restrooms, and “offensive bodily hygiene that constitutes a nuisance to others.” After all, libraries are for reading, right? Not to liberals, who are calling the rules an assault on the homeless “community.” San Francisco, of all places, recently banned public defecation, and there were similar howls of outrage from the compassionate set. These self-described “community” advocates need to buy a vowel and realize that helping the homeless is not the same as benignly allowing them to be public nuisances on the fringes of society.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
