it must be nice to be privileged enough to say something like that.
I often times am envious of people who make these kind of blanketĀ ādont support x because of yā posts with no thought or nuance to the issue at hand because I KNOW they have never been in the situation where these services were a need and not a choice.
The salvation army is one of two shelters in my city. You either go here, or the Good Shepard, or you sleep at the park in the bathroom.
The salvation army has has given my gay ass food, my 2 of my bisexual cousins a place to live, has clothes, has a program to help you find work, will let ANYBODY come and eat NO QUESTIONS ASKED, and your primary concern isā¦..politics?
Ā Let me tell you something.
When youāre homeless you dont give a fuck aboutĀ āomg salvation army is so shitty!!!ā You wash in the sink at the library.. You have nowhere to go. Youāre so hungry youāre sick. Youāre running a fever. Your shoes have holes in them. You cant get a job because youāre not even CLEAN.
The Salvation army gives homeless people a chance where they dont have one, ESPECIALLY when its sometimes THE ONLY shelter in smaller cities and towns. If youāre able to have a choice in the matter? Fine. But millions of people dont.Ā
My mother and her baby [my older sister] a place to live.
Cousin #1 a place to live.
Cousin #2 a place to live
Cousin #3 a place to live.
Cousin #4 a place to live.
And allowed anyone, even me [a homosexual!!!], who isnt even homless [yet] FREE food in a warm dry safe environment every single night at 6pm.Ā
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/nodiscrimination
Iām sorry, but I am absolutely disgusted.Ā
ādont support a place that gives homeless people a warm, dry, clean, and safe place to live; helps them find a job, gives them clothes, transportation, and a second chance at life, because theyāre problematicāĀ
without the salvation army one of the nationās largest chains of shelters for not only homeless people, but low-income people would be gone.
And then even more people, yes lgbt people too, and single parents, and CHILDREN, would be on the streets, starving, or dead.Ā
Support the fucking salvation army.