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Should you be subject to arrest if you don't want to be subject to religious conditions? You may want to review the Constitution on that one.

• skeledrew 2y ago
  That isn't there case though. You're being subject to arrest for failing to use an available shelter. The religious conditions are a side effect. Similar to how taking a dump is a side effect of eating, and so if you want to avoid taking one, you'd have to avoid eating, but you have to deal with the prospect of death as a consequence. You don't die from not taking a dump (usually), but from not eating.
  • FireBeyond 2y ago
    Well, it turned out it was the case, and as it wound through the appeals process, this was upheld, because when the City knows that this is happening and continues to enforce, it becomes a de facto situation, that the Court specifically called out in their decision: > A city cannot, via the threat of prosecution, coerce an individual to attend religion-based treatment programs -- Judge Marsha S. Berzon, for 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
    • skeledrew 2y ago
      Is a shelter a treatment program? Or a place where someone can get some rest for a night or few, hopefully some food as well?