Hi DMB,
> dmb says: > > As luck would have it, we are presently having a national conversation about > religious freedom and the legal battles over gay marriage in California > constitute a kind of public conversation too. It's interesting that one of > the charges made by "ProtectMarriage" against the judge's ruling was that it > depicted their supporters as a bunch of bigoted homophobes. In the case of > the New York city mosque, the other day I highlighted the gap between the > principle and the polls. On one hand there are the Obama quotes in which he > says that religious freedom is essential to who we are and then there is the > polling data that says nearly 70% of Americans oppose the plan. There was a > similarly gap in an article about the court case in California. Steve: I don't know if you saw Sam Harris's article on the mosque thing. It sounds like he would count himself in the 70% though he does not think legal action should be taken to prevent the building of the mosque. A lot of those 70% may be right to think it is in bad taste (to put it mildly) even if it ought to be allowed under the Constitutional right. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-13/ground-zero-mosque/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
