Issue Position: Poverty

Issue Position

Maintaining the vital resources for those impoverished and homeless:

Without food donations and critical funding to pay rent and utilities, the tireless work of non-profit organizations in our city becomes stretched thin. Those who benefit from the provided resources are being pushed to the brink.

Local organizations that are lending a hand to our neighbors need support from government and the community in order to sustain these vital programs. Though religion is often criticized for intermingling with politics, Matthew 25:35-36 lends us guidance and deepens our outstanding of the significance of supporting our brothers and sisters. It states, "For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was stranger and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me." The sentiment in this passage of Matthew is common law in many faith traditions in order to best nurture a just society. All of us have an obligation to those struggling to make ends meet.

This means that when government makes sacrifices during budget season, those at the margins of our society should not be first to the fire. It is simply immoral.

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