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The law, in its majestic equality. (Slants and Trends).(regarding where homeless are allowed to sleep)(Brief Article)

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From: Land Use Law Report
Date: 20020619
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`THE LAW, IN ITS MAJESTIC EQUALITY, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.' Anatole France, The Red Lily (1894). But the majesty of the law does not extend to forbidding the homeless from sleeping in a church portico, at least if they are invited, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled (story, p. 98). The court said New York City, under the administration of Rudolph Giuliani, interfered with a church's free exercise of religion when it sent police to roust homeless persons sleeping on the church's property, ...

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