rightwing, your arguments are good, but your posts look like someone who never finished 5th grade wrote them.

Ok biged, First of all, I don't smoke. 2nd, the point is If a person doesn't have money to take care of them selves, They they need to do the wise thing with the money they do have. Get it? I donate plenty to legal shelters. Get a petition up to stop the county from harrassing you while doing Gods work.Really, I'm pretty sure God would want the laws followed, not broken like you far left wingers do. What's next Take over Bakersfield and Kern County laws. The county does nothing to help, people.That's why the County, State, and Feds are broke.. Please, No more of this liberal nonsense. Why don't you open you're own house up? I've lived here sense 1951 biged..Got you by 30 years......

WE pay taxes for our homes & neighborhoods. We try to keep our neighborhoods clean & safe for our children. I;m at kind of a lost. I wouldn't want them in my neighborhood, but do feel sorry for some of them. I know some are bad & drugies, but not all. I don't believe they should be camping there.

It seems to me that this pastor is only interested in fighting with county officials. Health and safety codes exist biged for the welfare of BOTH the homeless staying there AND the surrounding residents. So why not work WITH county officials to bring the property up to code? Many of us want to look at this as just a few neighbors saying 'not in my backyard' but its more complex than that. Health and safety codes exist to ensure just that-health and safety.

As long as it stays clean and doesn't cause problems for the surrounding area I think it's fine.

rightwing , just because you can afford a pack of smokes doesnt give you the ability to buy a house get real. And to our fair county leaders, I have been in Bakersfield since 1981, Oildale has allways been overlooked when it came to being cleaned up. You have drug addicts running the streets, trash and junk on properties so deep you cant see the houses, but let a church step out and try to help these people and you freak out. What the hell is wrong with you people. The county does nothing to help, people say let them go back by the river but the cops run them off. I am truly getting a since that most of you griping about this would rather see these people put to sleep like animals. Now to the good people of the church, Get a petition up to stop the county from harrassing you while doing Gods work. i am so fed up with people complaining about this, where do they think all these people are supposed to go, and believe me with the way our government is screwing things up, there is going to be masses more people becoming homeless, I just hope it is these perfect people that it happens to first. Seeing that this is a church it should be a violation of the constitution to mess with them. And finaly to the good people that live around this, I have seen the area before the church was there and it wasnt much better than a slum to begin with, so get real.

As always, When I see homeless or anyone for that matter that has money for a dog, alcohol, cigarettes, etc, they loose my sympathy. You have to get the priorities straight.