I've been to many 12 Stepper meetings (many of them gay) in church basements over the years.
Frankly, churches desperate to offer space for outside and unrelated groups tend to be the ones in some financial difficulties. Not all, but I've attended meetings that had to move for a church closure more than once.
The hospice group I volunteered for wasn't a Catholic mission of any sort, but they did provide free space with only one stipulation, no condom hand outs on church property. I don't recall any restrictions on brochures containing 'sensitive' information. It was free space, we took the condom restriction in stride, no choice really. We had a support group too. I don't think the local church people there had ANY idea how scary some of the attendees were. Maybe they did, Idunno. I wasn't worried at the time, in hindsight, mebbee I should have been. Scariest one there was my assignment for a while. Worst thing she did as smoke cigarettes in my car, and once, only once, she had me drive her to a scary scary house so she could get heroin. Last thing I ever did for her. She knew she had effed up real bad when she got back in the car. I was reassigned, and I made sure the higher ups in our organization knew why.
We eventually left the Catholic facilities when we received enough grant money to cover rent on an office in a strip mall. And then we passed out condoms.
We never used any Catholic facility as an address for obvious reasons. From day one we had a Post Office box and it worked fine till we moved into the strip mall.
Frankly, churches desperate to offer space for outside and unrelated groups tend to be the ones in some financial difficulties. Not all, but I've attended meetings that had to move for a church closure more than once.
The hospice group I volunteered for wasn't a Catholic mission of any sort, but they did provide free space with only one stipulation, no condom hand outs on church property. I don't recall any restrictions on brochures containing 'sensitive' information. It was free space, we took the condom restriction in stride, no choice really. We had a support group too. I don't think the local church people there had ANY idea how scary some of the attendees were. Maybe they did, Idunno. I wasn't worried at the time, in hindsight, mebbee I should have been. Scariest one there was my assignment for a while. Worst thing she did as smoke cigarettes in my car, and once, only once, she had me drive her to a scary scary house so she could get heroin. Last thing I ever did for her. She knew she had effed up real bad when she got back in the car. I was reassigned, and I made sure the higher ups in our organization knew why.
We eventually left the Catholic facilities when we received enough grant money to cover rent on an office in a strip mall. And then we passed out condoms.
We never used any Catholic facility as an address for obvious reasons. From day one we had a Post Office box and it worked fine till we moved into the strip mall.
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