Salon.com: Mosque foe hits extremist pastor’s 9/11 Christian Center

We’re finally seeing one of the opponents of the so-called “ground zero mosque” speak out against the “9/11 Christian Center” that an extremist evangelical pastor is launching this weekend.

This week Salon reached out to many prominent foes of the Park51 community center project to ask if they thought it was appropriate for pastor Bill Keller, who has assailed Muslims and Mormons and many others in vicious terms, to run his new church so close to what some consider the hallowed area around ground zero. The response had, until now, been silence.

But the Daily News today has a story quoting mosque opponent Andy Sullivan speaking out against Keller. The twist is that Sullivan seems to object to the 9/11 Christian Center on primarily tactical grounds. Here’s the passage:

Andy Sullivan, a leader in the movement to move Park51, said Keller’s 9/11 Christian Center is “just what we do not need” near Ground Zero.

“This guy is going to justify all the people who call us bigots and racists for opposing the mosque,” he said.

This Andy is not our good pal Sully, but rather a construction worker in NYC who’s the leader of the “Hard Hat Pledge,” which is working to get as many construction workers in the city as they to promise not work on Park51. Think about that for a second: Construction workers, in a time of economic turmoil and rampant unemployment, refusing to do a job because the people financing it and running it are Muslims. Can you imagine the uproar in this day and age if these guys were pledging not work on a black church?