It's a funny old world, despite her Catholic leanings, Nanny seems to have a bee in her bonnet about Christianity.She has decided to poke her nose into the activities of the Barnabas House refuge, which was set up over ten years ago by the King's Lynn Baptist Church.
The refuge provides shelter for homeless people, between the ages of 16 and 30. It has, until now, received funding from the local county council.
However, Nanny's friends on the council are minded to withdraw that funding.
Why?
The refuge asks its residents to say grace before meals.
Additionally, the council is feeling a bit "iffy" about the bibles that are placed in rooms and the "Christian ethos" of the refuge.
I understand that the fact that the refuge bans drink and drugs, a rather good idea I would have thought for a refuge, is a "no no" as far as the council is concerned.
They have asked the refuge to relax its prohibition of drink and drugs!
Bonkers!
Absolutely bonkers!
This just about sums up the ridiculous state which this country of ours is in. In Bristol there was a Boys' Club which admitted boys up to about 16 or 18. The Council stopped its funding. Why? because it only adnitted BOYS. So it has closed and the lads who used to find a place to enjoylife after tea are now reduced to hanging around on street corners. But that's all right because the Council has satisfied its gender policy. And the Students'Union have taken all the bibles out of bedrooms in the Halls of Residences for fear of upsetting all the Arabs, Hindus etc.
ReplyDeleteActually, Ken, this story is wrong.
ReplyDeleteNorfolk Social Services are fantastically broke, and they are simply inventing excuses to withdraw provision ; provision is collapsing county-wide.