The pastor of a church that has housed Occupy Wall Street protesters is giving them two weeks to leave after a portion of a baptismal font went missing. "It was like pissing on the 99 percent," the Post quotes Rev. Bob Brashear of West Park Presbyterian Church as sermonizing. Around 60 protesters sleep between the pews every night, and Brashear discovered that the basin and its lid were missing before Sunday services, and demanded that they be returned later that day. Recalling the era of the crack epidemic, Brashear said that the drug addicts the church took in didn't steal the basin. "Not even the crackheads messed with that."
West Park Church has been instrumental in housing occupiers who would otherwise be homeless, and has assisted the movement well before the eviction of Zuccotti Park. When Brashear's $2,500 MacBook went missing a few weeks ago, the pastor told the AP at the time, "There's a common understanding that if there's one more theft in the church, that's it."
The basin was later found "tossed into a small room connected to the church," but its lid remains missing. The story, authored by the same reporter who called Zuccotti Park a "24-hour party," does not quote any of the protesters living in the church.
In other dour news for the Occupy movement, councilmember Charles Barron now believes that protesters should leave the foreclosed home they occupied with a family in East New York last month. His demand comes despite the fact that he was among those who supported the occupation, and that the original owner of the house acknowledges that he met with Barron and the protesters before the Occupy Foreclosure event.
We've reached out to the protesters living in West Park Church and the organizers of Occupy Foreclosure for comment and will update when more information becomes available.
