Criminalizing the feeding of the homeless: can't they see that it's a sin?

I was appalled to read today about some US cities passing legislation to criminalize the feeding of the homeless:

A report released Monday by the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) found that ordinances which have been adopted in 21 cities target food pantries, individuals, and homeless populations alike by perpetuating harmful myths about the effects of food-sharing and restricting the ways communities can do it.

According to the NCH, these ordinances are examples of a three-fold legislative process: restricting the use of public property, imposing food-safety regulations, and community actions targeting homeless rights groups. Other similar restrictions have already passed in cities with large homeless populations in Texas, California, Washington, and Oregon, among others.

"It seems harmless on the surface, but they’re part of a series of laws that criminalizes activities homeless people need to perform in order to stay alive," Nathan Pim, a volunteer with a food-sharing nonprofit in Fort Lauderdale, states in the NCH report.

The object of these ordinances is, at best, to obscure the problem of homelessness and, at worst, to eliminate one of poor people's few survival mechanisms. How can someone go about this business and not be aware of their own evil? I'm a poor excuse for a believer (I waver at times). I'm not very religious, but my exposure to religious teachings at a young age shaped some of my most deeply held beliefs, one of which is that feeding the poor--whether it be giving turkeys to a food bank, donating to UNICEF, or handing a homeless person a sandwich--is a good thing (this belief never wavers).

The bible says:

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse (Proverbs 28:27)

and

And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.” (Luke 3:11)

Ordinances such as these allow people to "hide their eyes" from the presence of homeless people. Ordinances such as these might have criminalized my own grandmother, who always had something to feed the hobos who showed up at her door during the Depression. Why, she might have been making it possible for them to remain homeless (alive)--how horrible!

How is it that something like this is happening in our supposed "Christian" nation? Can't they see that it's a sin? I suspect it's because many of the people pressing for and passing these ordinances are Christians (or Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, etc.--most religions have teachings about caring for the poor) in name only.