Friday: US President Barack Obama's endorsement of a controversial plan to build a mosque just blocks from Ground Zero poured fuel Saturday on a raging debate over religious freedom and sensitivities over the 9/11 attacks.
And Saturday White House officials said earlier in the day that Mr. Obama was not trying to promote the project, but rather sought more broadly to make a statement about freedom of religion and American values. In this country we treat everybody equally and in accordance with the law, regardless of race, regardless of religion, Mr. Obama said at the Coast Guard station. I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. Thats what our country is about. On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The man believes in the basis of religious freedoms on which his > country was founded, and he and his party believe the Mosque should be > built. > And he is saying so, he is standing up for what he believes. > > Instead of remaining silent , prevaricating or using politically > correct speech to weasel out of saying what he really things. Or > worse, agreeing with the majority to win votes. > If he were my President, I'd want him to say how he felt, and why ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324929 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
