re: #36 Walter L. Newton

The real issue here is the mosque. I heard a talk show host this morning not only slam Muslims for wanting to build the mosque, he was equating the fact that non-Mormons are not allowed inside a Temple during actual temple services, and that is the same as westerners not being able to be in Mecca and that this will become an issue for Mitt if he runs for president… and this was a conservative talk show pundit. This pundit evidently cares nothing about the freedoms given in our constitution.

I demand to be allowed into a sweatlodge ceremony! I don’t care that I’m not Lakota, know jack about the religion, and it’s an all-male ceremony! I have a constitutional right to be included in any religious service I choose to be included in.

(Also, Westerners are allowed in Mecca, just not non-Muslims.)