It’s unfortunate that it has come to this but we’ve experienced four fires around the church property since June and the Board of Trustees had met. They have decided to protect the property belonging to the church,” Barb Shourounis, board chair for Knox Metropolitan Church said.

Some others feel it points to the desperation.

“Imagine sleeping like that underneath the church to feel safe. It must be rough, like people after you or whatnot,” Peterson’s friend Leon Clifford Cummings said.

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        Maybe give them a place to have fires lol. You’re a church you don’t pay taxes and your religion calls on you to take care of the unhoused

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        Hey, if they want to make shit harder on the homeless, they should at least admit that they don’t give a fuck about the teachings of the person they claim to worship.