This story has legs. Hopefully a solution will be found for these men who have taken up residence on the steps of Old First. Read the rest at the Brooklyn Paper.

Three homeless men have driven one of Park Slope’s most liberal religious leaders to the very brink of what some would consider un-Christian behavior.

Rev. Daniel Meeter of Old First Reformed Presbyterian Church has gotten so fed up with the homeless people sleeping on the steps of his house of worship that he has begun throwing out their belongings — a move that has prompted a flurry of multi-denominational soul-searching in liberal Park Slope.

“It’s always been a simmering problem, but it heated up this summer,” said Meeter.

For years, the front steps of the church, at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Carroll Street, unprotected by a fence, have served as a de facto homeless shelter.

By this summer, three men in particular were finding refuge there: Robert Royster, who’d been an on-and-off visitor for years, Will Franklin, who drinks on the stoop and sleeps elsewhere, and Frank Silano. All three have substance-abuse problems, according to Meeter