[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[John Carl]

Hi Steve,

Mentioning the mosque, I think Islam should be allowed to mount some kind of
plaque or memorial right at the site. Why not a mosque?  I mean, they won
this battle, and to the victors go the spoils, eh?

John

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Steven Peterson
<peterson.steve at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi DMB,
>
>
> > dmb says:
> >
> > As luck would have it, we are presently having a national conversation
> about religious freedom and the legal battles over gay marriage in
> California constitute a kind of public conversation too. It's interesting
> that one of the charges made by "ProtectMarriage" against the judge's ruling
> was that it depicted their supporters as a bunch of bigoted homophobes. In
> the case of the New York city mosque, the other day I highlighted the gap
> between the principle and the polls. On one hand there are the Obama quotes
> in which he says that religious freedom is essential to who we are and then
> there is the polling data that says nearly 70% of Americans oppose the plan.
> There was a similarly gap in an article about the court case in California.
>
>
> Steve:
> I don't know if you saw Sam Harris's article on the mosque thing. It
> sounds like he would count himself in the 70% though he does not think
> legal action should be taken to prevent the building of the mosque. A
> lot of those 70% may be right to think it is in bad taste (to put it
> mildly) even if it ought to be allowed under the Constitutional right.
>
>
>
> http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-13/ground-zero-mosque/
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