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Herman Cain: Communities have right to ban mosques

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Herman Cain: Communities have right to ban mosques

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that communities have a right to ban Islamic mosques.

Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," the former Godfather's Pizza CEO said protests and legal challenges to a planned mosque in Tennessee city are an example of local residents pushing back.

This is my biggest problem with Cain. He is willing to blatantly violate the Constitution in this manner, and will hide being the facade of, "but the people want to!"

Member of the KKK want to exterminate blacks, jews, catholics, etc. Doesn't f**king mean we let them.

Herman Cain really is just horrible. What he says will corrupt and destroy America and her values, and I hope this man doesn't get a single vote for President, because he is absolutely wrong for this job.
 
Herman Cain: Communities have right to ban mosques



This is my biggest problem with Cain. He is willing to blatantly violate the Constitution in this manner, and will hide being the facade of, "but the people want to!"

Member of the KKK want to exterminate blacks, jews, catholics, etc. Doesn't f**king mean we let them.

Herman Cain really is just horrible. What he says will corrupt and destroy America and her values, and I hope this man doesn't get a single vote for President, because he is absolutely wrong for this job.

Hermann Cain could never get away with it. He would be struck down by the First Amendment.
 
Just the fact that he WANTS to is a serious problem. Does he truly believe this, or is he catering to the Evangelical wing of the GOP. Either way, I swear the Evangelical Protestants are going to hand Obama a second term, and if that DOES come to pass, while I am commanded by my faith to forgive, I will certainly not forget...
 
"**** your rights, if people want to stop you from having a place to worship they should be allowed to!"

-Herman Cain
 
A black conservative who is openly homophobic, xenophobic and bigoted? How shocking. Sadly, Herman Cain is a product of both the black community and Protestant xenophobia. He brings the worst of both worlds alive. A black community who openly attacks anything that isn't Christian, black and ignorant and a Conservative community who attacks anything that isn't ignorant, gun toting and Christian.
 
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If his statement was that Sharia law wouldn't be legal or recognized I would agree, but to ban a mosque is a clear violation of the constitution.
 
Herman Cain: Communities have right to ban mosques



This is my biggest problem with Cain. He is willing to blatantly violate the Constitution in this manner, and will hide being the facade of, "but the people want to!"

Member of the KKK want to exterminate blacks, jews, catholics, etc. Doesn't f**king mean we let them.

Herman Cain really is just horrible. What he says will corrupt and destroy America and her values, and I hope this man doesn't get a single vote for President, because he is absolutely wrong for this job.

Funny how he wants to restrict religion and he gets the scorn of many of the same people who would want to restrict or perhaps repeal the second amendment.
 
Funny how he wants to restrict religion and he gets the scorn of many of the same people who would want to restrict or perhaps repeal the second amendment.

Regardless of the scorn of a hypothetical group of people that you seem to be dragging into this, how do you feel. Should communities have the right to block the construction of mosques? If so, should a community also have the right to block a Christian or Jewish place of worship from being built?

As much as you may like to peg atheists as hateful towards religion, on the contrary, many are quite of all faiths. (I assume this was what your statement referred to. If not, disregard the last sentence)
 
If his statement was that Sharia law wouldn't be legal or recognized I would agree, but to ban a mosque is a clear violation of the constitution.

Sharia law is already legal.....




as long as it does not conflict with standing US law. You do realize that there is freedom of contract in the US right?
 
Regardless of the scorn of a hypothetical group of people that you seem to be dragging into this,


There is nothing hypothetical about many of these hypocrites.

how do you feel. Should communities have the right to block the construction of mosques? If so, should a community also have the right to block a Christian or Jewish place of worship from being built?

No community has the right to block the construction of any religious building, nor should they be allowed to. Part of the free exercise of religion is attending a religious service in a religious building.
 
Sharia law is already legal.....




as long as it does not conflict with standing US law. You do realize that there is freedom of contract in the US right?

Thank you. I worded that poorly. I will blame it on the double shift!
 
Wonder how he'd react if a Muslim group blocked the building of a church. :lol:
 
There is nothing hypothetical about many of these hypocrites.



No community has the right to block the construction of any religious building, nor should they be allowed to. Part of the free exercise of religion is attending a religious service in a religious building.

I agree that hypocrites exist but not only within the atheist sub group. It's similar to hyperpartisanship. Many are blind to their own hypocrisy.
 
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Absolutely un-American. I know people throw that phrase around at anything they don't like, but it's true in this case.
 
"**** your rights, if people want to stop you from having a place to worship they should be allowed to!"

-Herman Cain

Did he actually say that?
 
Or Jewish synagogue....

It won't be long till the Moors return to punish your Nordic ass, so watch how you talk about them. ;)
 
Herman Cain really is just horrible. What he says will corrupt and destroy America and her values, and I hope this man doesn't get a single vote for President, because he is absolutely wrong for this job.

The interview was revealing in that it showed just how ill-suited for the job Mr. Cain would be. Some highlights:

1. His advocacy of approaches that would violate the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom.

2. His lack of understanding of what would happen if the federal government had to immediately cut expenditures by 44% (basically he seems to think all major obligations could be met even when the funding wouldn't exist).

3. His throwing around the terms static and dynamic analysis when he knows nothing about them. When the capital gains tax would be eliminated/reduced to 0%, both static and dynamic analysis would indicate that there would be no capital gains tax revenue. The tax wouldn't exist. Hence, Mr. Cain's claim that dynamic analysis wouldn't show a complete loss of capital gains tax revenue reveals a lack of understanding of the two budgetary approaches.

4. He claimed to be a "problem solver" but offered not even a single concrete example of problem-solving. Rather, he claimed to have an edge in problem-solving experience over the rest of the field, as if such a claim would substitute for an absence of evidence.

In sum, Mr.Cain is not Presidential material and not a credible candidate. His polling numbers will very likely continue to fade as more and more learn that he is little more than a hollow candidate.
 
Funny how he wants to restrict religion and he gets the scorn of many of the same people who would want to restrict or perhaps repeal the second amendment.

I'm going to be honest here, you're being a hack.

Just because a group has its own flaws doesn't mean it can't point out other flaws. What you're selfishly doing for political gain would hold up the progress of humanity. As it stands, I am completely against what Cain said on banning mosques, but at the same time, I'm completely for maintaining 2nd amendment rights.

Ergo, my position proves your statement is wrong (because you obviously mean every liberal; all you do is deal in absolutes).
 
Did he actually say that?

He might as well have, it has the same implications. Actually if he said that, I would have a little bit more respect for him, because at least he is then being open about his prejudices. Right now, he's hiding behind the "people"
 
He might as well have, it has the same implications. Actually if he said that, I would have a little bit more respect for him, because at least he is then being open about his prejudices. Right now, he's hiding behind the "people"

According to this article, Herman Cain Says U.S. Communities 'Have the Right' to Ban Mosques - FoxNews.com, his reasoning is that Islam is not just a religion. It is a religion with built in Shariah law.

I may not agree with him here, but I fail to see how it would violate the first amendment. The right to free speech and assembly does not also mean you can erect a building where you please. Communities do control zoning. They should be able to change the zoning of the particular site.
 
There is nothing hypothetical about many of these hypocrites.



No community has the right to block the construction of any religious building, nor should they be allowed to. Part of the free exercise of religion is attending a religious service in a religious building.

then you should have just said that, instead of attempting to derail the thread.
 
i am now wondering where all his supporters from the board are. crickets.
 
According to this article, Herman Cain Says U.S. Communities 'Have the Right' to Ban Mosques - FoxNews.com, his reasoning is that Islam is not just a religion. It is a religion with built in Shariah law.

I may not agree with him here, but I fail to see how it would violate the first amendment. The right to free speech and assembly does not also mean you can erect a building where you please. Communities do control zoning. They should be able to change the zoning of the particular site.

There is a difference between accommodating the requirements of local zoning ordinances and outright banning mosques from communities. The former is constitutional. The latter is a gross infringement of the First Amendment. Mr. Cain takes the latter approach and invents a reason why Islam should be treated differently. It is extremely unlikely that the Supreme Court would accept Mr. Cain's interpretation to deny Islam/Muslims First Amendment protections.
 
I've got no issue with a community protesting against the placement of a business, place of worship, etc. I also have no issue, if the land attempting to be used requires governmental approval, for those people lobbying the local government to deny a group the ability to build there if that's within the boundries of the law relating to the purchase of that land

What I do have issue with however is suggesting people have a right to attempt to legally force a group from building a place of worship when by all accounts the building of such is absolutely within the realm of legality. That's simply and completley wrong.
 
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