Pete McCluskey.
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WTF? I cannot believe how insensitive this bloke is.
Obama supports 'the right' for ground zero mosque - Yahoo! News
Obama supports 'the right' for ground zero mosque - Yahoo! News
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Directory of the churches of Christ
So should we also ban a Roman Catholic Church from being built near the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City?
Timothy McVeigh was Roman Catholic and he committed the second worst terrorist attack in the US, one behind 9/11.
I don't think McVeigh's Catholicism was in any way connected to his mass murder. I also suspect he wasn't much of a churchgoer. On the other hand, the 9/11 conspirators very much were commiting their acts in conjunction with their religious beliefs.
As far as the mosque goes, "can they" is a different answer than "should they". Imagine you are a family or friend of someone killed on 9/11 and you are at the ground zero site when the adhān is played to call Muslims to prayer one of five times each day. It certainly will be heard a block or so away. Seems like an incredibly insensitive gesture.
Interesting point and I guess at the core of what I struggle with when I talk to friends that are Libertarians. The question is what is government’s role in public policy versus merely civil and criminal law. Where is the dividing line of when rights are infringed and the proliferation of new “rights”? I also see a blurring of lines of freedom of religion to freedom from religion. If some coach wants to offer a silent prayer for player safety before a high school football game, the school board censures him because it’s offensive to someone. Yet a mosque near ground zero is offensive to many yet it’s OK. Seems to me to be contradictory.
Is punishment for voluntary prayer a "non endorsement" or a violation of the first amendment?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Seems to me, a better argument is to allow the prayer, allow the mosque.
I think the good people of New York will be the determining factor as to if it is built or not. Not the politicians, radicals, activists, etc.