Ya know, this whole Mosque thing is a little bit crazy. I mean, do people support tossing out the occupants of the EXISTING MOSQUE 530 YARDS FROM GROUND ZERO?
I understand the uneasyness about establishing a mosque near GZ. People insist that the Constitution is inviolate. It's time to put your money where your mouth is, because for freedoms and rights to
truly exist, it means that someone or someones have the exact same rights as anyone else, even if those rights make you uncomfortable. The First Amendment says:
It doesn't say "if you are a Christian" or "if you believe what the majority of the rest of the country believes" or "Muslims excepted." It says religion. Period. No qualifiers, no exceptions, no predujices.
Mr. V: You want the church built? YOU PAY FOR IT. Buy the land and donate it. Surely a staunch conservative like yourself isn't advocating the use of
60 MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to fund an exercise that flies in the face of the establishment clause, are you? ARE YOU?
Sharif el-Gamel purchased the Park Pl. property and donated it to the Mosque. Are you willing to do the same for the Greek Orthodox Church? Or are you going to keep spewing propaganda? You preach small-government/leave me alone/don't tread on me/Obama is a socialist/the stimulus was B.S./cut my taxes, yet you want
60 MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to be spent on what is - CONSTITUTIONALLY - not a government concern. How very liberal of you.
You stepped off of the curb without looking, and are now splattered across the windshield of the Double-Standard Express.