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Originally Posted by Mr. Smith
Freedom of religion is Freedom of religion. That really is the bottom line. If right-wingers are successful in stopping the building of this mosque, it will come back to bite them in the butt. Hard.
When the door is opened to preventing the building of a place of worship on moral grounds, it will only be a short amount of time until Christian houses of worship are prohibited based on moral grounds.
The last thing in this world you people REALLY want is for the mosque to be banned from the vicinity of Ground Zero.
"Freedom of Religion" doesn't just mean, "Freedom of MY Religion."
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I agree, we have no room to cry if local governments start to zone churches out of commercial areas using this as a example.
Its a freedom of religion issue. The whole point of freedom is that anyone can express their viewpoint, but no one has to listen or participate. I don't see how we can say no to another religion and then turn around and cry when local city counsels say no to churches or make it near impossible to build because they are losing tax revenue. municipalities really dont like churches for what they do to their tax base.