Didn't Jesus state "the poor will always be with us"?
Do you Christians think that Jesus would approve of making homeless people into criminals simply because they're poor?
It's always funny when a pagan tries to tell me what Jesus would or would not say, when he didn't say anything about a given topic.
He did say "he which made them at the beginning made them male and female", but throughout the entire Bible, I can't find a single reference to vagrancy laws.
In fact, the only referrence I can point to, says specifically for us to not be like that.
Luke 22:25-26
“The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you."
In other words, the pagan politicians run around saying "We help everyone!" and we're not to be like them.
My personal view, which isn't based on the Bible because I don't see it in the Bible, is that my issue is with harassment and fraud.
Homeless makes $100,000 a year, doing his homeless shtick.
In fact, the UK liberals were stupid enough to try and disprove the homeless shtick in their country, and did some research. Instead of proving the poor beggars were really homeless helpless needy people, they found the opposite.
City where just one in ten beggars is sleeping rough
Only one in about 10 beggars badgering people on the street for money, actually were homeless. Everyone else had a place to be. They just flat out didn't want to work.
That's one of the reasons you can't get the government to research how many homeless beggars are actually homeless here. They know the answers would be shocking in the wrong direction.
I have no problem helping people who are in real need. But most are fraudsters scamming people. And I certainly have a huge issue with people intentionally harassing people.
Years and years ago, I used to go to a Chinese buffet for lunch down town. One day, there were these two guys, shaking people down for money. Normally, there was only one of them. But this day, there were two of them, and this is before I had my CCW. They cornered me between two cars in the parking lot, with one in front, and the other came up behind me, and they were very insistent that they wanted (spare change), and quite honestly, I was concerned for my safety.
I never went back there again. That business owner lost a consistent repeat customer forever.
Now it's pretty easy for you, whose livelihood and income are not dependent on customers, to say that other people shouldn't be allowed to remove beggars. If it was your job on the line, and your family who would end up suffering because some guy was harassing your customers.... you would be singing a different tune altogether.