On Nov 24, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Fred B. Ellison wrote (Quoting Doug
Hagmann:
The grant application was submitted under the Lower Manhattan
Community and Cultural Enhancement Program that is administered by
the LMDC. That program was established “to provide up to a total of
$17 million in grants through a competitive process to not-for-
profit and government organizations engaged in cultural or community
programs or projects.” The “Ground Zero mosque project is asking for
nearly a third of the available money. Will they get it? Some of it?
All of it? It’s indeed possible, according to the research and
interviews I’ve conducted this week.
I would oppose awarding this grant money, but only to the extent I
oppose the creation of the grant program in the first place. The
"Cordoba Initiative" matches the purpose of the grants in every
respect and is exactly what the money was allocated for, but it should
never have been allocated in the first place because we do not want
the government deciding what is validly "cultural" and what is not
(and it has no authority to so judge in any case).
Sincerely,
Eric Vought
"Faith does not absolve us from trying to understand our world and
make moral distinctions with the eyes and brain given us. Religion is
as much responsibility as direction: Duty not Distinction."
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