re: #141 sliv_the_eli

It is not so clear that independents and liberals are coming to agree with the right-wing crazies who believe that the Cordoba House/Park 51 project should be stopped by the government (or anyone else). The recent polls, notwithstanding how they are portrayed by the generally irresponsible media (who, as many here have pointed out, continue to falsely call the project a “ground zero mosque”), indicate only that many independents and liberals have qualms about whether the project should be located at the proposed site. I suspect that many of the same independents and liberals (full disclosure: I consider myself an independent) would have a different answer to the following questions:

1. Do the developers of the proposed Muslim Community Center a few blocks away from the World Trade Center have the right to build the project and to include a mosque in the center?
2. Should the government prohibit the project from being built if it otherwise complies with the local zoning and other land use laws?
3. Should the government seek to influence the proponents of the project to locate the center somewhere else?

1. Yes
2. No
3. Not the government but if private citizens do, that’s their right. However, it’s also the right of the developers to say “sorry but we’re building it here.”