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Bloomberg lauds religious liberty established by Christian founders; others challenge mosque intentions

By Alliance Alert

The Wall Street Journal has the full text of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "speech following a vote that clears most major hurdles for the construction of a planned mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero": "Of all our precious freedoms, the most important may be the freedom to worship as we wish. And it is a freedom that, even here in a City that is rooted in Dutch tolerance, was hard-won over many years . . . with or without landmark designation, there is nothing in the law that would prevent the owners from opening a mosque within the existing building. The simple fact is this building is private property, and the owners have a right to use the building as a house of worship . . . The government has no right whatsoever to deny that right ? and if it were tried, the courts would almost certainly strike it down as a violation of the U.S. Constitution." | Via Religion Clause

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 04, 2010 (boomark / email).