I believe America needs to grit its teeth and let the center be built.

Is Ground Zero the place for America to begin compromising our Core Essential Constitutional rights?

Is Ground Zero a place for us to begin parsing religious  freedom?

The Mosque is planned after all on Private Property and has met all the legal hurdles to being built.

Michael R. Bloomberg stated “I believe that this is an important test of the separation of church and state as we may see in our lifetime — as important a test — and it is critically important that we get it right,”

I could not agree more with Mayor Bloomberg:    the American determination to stick to our beloved tenets of freedom, and our impulse to cooperate with all that share them is what is at stake – as is the ability for anyone – Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Mormon, __fill in the blank_, and dare I add Muslim to the list – to have religious freedom in this great land we call America.

Many would argue and say ” Glenn Come on – if the KKK wanted to build there we would have the same issue…”  and while I agree – I would also answer that and state that the KKK is not a religious organization by most accounts – and its message of hatred for many sects is the sole reason they exist.

I have heard arguments with people stating – but Glenn there is a Mosque just a few blocks away – why do they need another?  I would answer that with this question?  How many “christian” churches are there around Ground Zero.  Heck here in Washington Court House Ohio – there are over 50.   That’s right roughly 50+ churches in a county with only 29K people… I am willing to bet there is a Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Unitarian, Mormon, Disciples of Christ, Church of Christ, Brethren and perhaps even a Catholic church within blocks of each other… but they are all Christian right   ask each and many would not accept the other as being Christian…

I think it is a very unwise move for this Mosque to be built – I believe it will become a huge target and worse – build an Anti-Muslim mentality when these are the people that Christ called us to Love (Love thy Enemy…)  We must however place our feelings aside for the sake of our own religious freedom.

Please note – I do not view Islamic Followers as our enemies – however the point is still important enough to be made for all those who do.   If you call yourself a Christian – If you are a follower of Christ than simply put we are to love our neighbor – and love our enemy…

I value all human life and promote forgiveness, understanding, reconciliation, and non-violent resolution of conflict where-ever possible.   This is not something I believe for which our nation should sacrifice it’s Constitutional Fiber.