Take action to stop cuts before it's too late

Crisis campaigns e-newsletter   Take action before it's too late 19/11/2009 Last week Gordon Brown was challenged at Prime Minister's Question Time about cuts that could see some tenants losing nearly 20% of their income. He said no final decision had been taken – so please take the Crisis simple e-action to oppose this deeply worrying proposal while there’s still time to stop it. The Crisis Poor choice: stop cuts to the poorest campaign opposes a cut that we’re worried could lead to increases in debt, rent arrears and, in the worst cases, homelessness. So, if you’ve not already done so, take action now. Thanks for your support. Read more here Crisis, 66 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LT Tel: 0844 251 0111 Fax: 0844 251 0110 Email: enquiries@crisis.org.uk Company Number - 4024938 | Charity numbers - England and Wales: 1082947 Scotland: SC040094

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Catholic Church Ready to Throw Homeless Under Bus in Order to Stop Gay Marriage | Gay Rights | Change.org

The Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. has issued an ultimatum to the District's city council: approve same-sex marriage, and the Church will stop serving the city's disadvantaged, including the homeless.Guess that Catholic Church commitment to the poor is only skin deep. For the Catholic Church to threaten the lives of homeless people and others who depend on church social services just to gain political points on the issue of gay marriage is sad, sorry, and a sign that no religious instutition in the country is willing to stand in the way of civil rights for gays and lesbians more than the Catholic Church.The temper tantrum being thrown by the D.C. Church is being portrayed as a direct threat to the Washington, D.C. City Council. Listen to us, the church says, or we'll throw this city's poor and homeless in front of the closest Metro train.Susan Gibbs, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Washington, told the Post yesterday that the Church isn't playing around here, and that they really will stop serving the poor and helping kids if gay marriage goes through in the District."If the city requires [gay marriage], we can't do it," said Gibbs. "The city is saying in order to provide social services, you need to be secular. For us, that's really a problem."But the city isn't saying anything about being secular. The same-sex marriage law before the D.C. City Council does not force the Catholic Church to hold gay marriages in their churches and cathedrals. It doesn't force Catholic priests to officiate gay weddings. The institutional Catholic Church doesn't have to change one iota of its homophobic identity if D.C. passes gay marriage.But instead of accepting that fact, the Church is willing to blackmail D.C. city council folks by threatening to pull the plug on social services that serve upwards of 68,000 people in the District, including at least one third of the city's homeless population.Guess that begs the question: did the Church really care about homeless people in D.C. in the first place, if they're willing to sell them out in order to peddle discrimination against gays and lesbians?D.C. City Council member Mary Cheh perhaps said in best in the article that appeared in the Post."[Is the Church] really going to harm people because they have a philosophical disagreement with us on one issue?" Cheh asked.The answer appears to be yes.

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Urgent: take action to stop cuts to poorest

Urgent: take action Help us stop cuts to poorest Dear Crisis e-campaigner, Today Crisis is urgently asking you to support our new Poor choice campaign opposing a cut that will see people on already low incomes suddenly losing up to £15 a week. Under the Government's plan, some of the poorest tenants would lose up to 20% of their income. We're worried this could lead to increases in debt, rent arrears and, in the worst cases, homelessness. What's more, Crisis believes the cut is unlikely to save as much as the Government hopes. Read more about why Crisis opposes this poor choice. Poor choice: hitting those at the bottom The plan means private tenants who receive Local Housing Allowance (LHA) would no longer be able to shop around and keep up to £15 a week where they find a property cheaper than the allowance. We know budgets are under pressure, but we're dismayed that the Government is choosing to take money from the poorest at this difficult time. It's a poor choice. It feels like the 10p tax rate all over again. What you can do Please support our Poor choice campaign and ask your MP to sign EDM 2069 to oppose the cut and encourage the Government to rethink this hasty and ill-judged decision.   Best wishes, Jenny Westaway Campaign Manager Crisis, 66 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LT Tel: 0844 251 0111 Fax: 0844 251 0110 Email: campaigns@crisis.org.uk Company Number - 4024938 | Charity numbers - England and Wales: 1082947 Scotland: SC040094 Email Preferences  |  Privacy Policy