Having visited a church in SF which seemed pretty similar to the ones in the article, the thing I found absolutely disgusting was the teaching that everyone should be giving money to the church. There were homeless people coming to church being told that giving up a minimum of 10% of what little they had would be the right thing to do. These are the people that the church should be supporting, not robbing.

The bible talks about cheerful giving for ministry. The notion that all people should be on the giving end of the bargain is nonsense. The city has a huge homelessness problem, and yet as a visitor, my perception of the churches was that they were just making things worse.