Hi Steve, Mentioning the mosque, I think Islam should be allowed to mount some kind of plaque or memorial right at the site. Why not a mosque? I mean, they won this battle, and to the victors go the spoils, eh?
John On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Steven Peterson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > 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
