Can you believe how intolerant and insensitive Republicans can be towards the homeless population? They’ve even gone so far as to pass an initiative criminalizing homelessness:

The Public Commons for Everyone Initiative passed 9-0 after months of debate among the council, homeless advocates, merchants and residents. The council instructed City Manager Phil Kamlarz to develop details of the implementation, which he will bring back to the council for further approval.

“This is a tolerant and caring community, but we do have our boundaries,'’ said Mayor Tom Bates, the legislation’s sponsor. “As a small city, we can never solve the drug and alcohol problems that play out on our streets, but this is one thing we can do.”

The initiative cracks down on a wide range of behavior that some say make Berkeley’s streets inhospitable to residents and visitors alike. Among the activities that will be banned are smoking near buildings in commercial areas, lying on the sidewalk, public urination and defecation, drinking in public, possessing a shopping cart and shouting in public.

What a joke. Tolerance has limits? Who knew? It’s as if they don’t care about those without homes, who are forced to sleep in the streets, eat from dumpsters and become addicted to drugs and alcohol. It’s like they don’t want to help them, they just want to move them out of eyesight and ignore their plight. What happened to culture? Diversity? Caring for the less fortunate?

Those heartless Republi…. wait, what? It’s the city council of Berkeley, California… the liberal bastion of the world?

Oh, then nevermind… that makes it the acceptable kind of intolerance then. Nothing to see here.