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Friday, August 20, 2010
Video: President Obama's defense of religious freedom
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Prof. Eshun Naleft
said...
I find it annoying that a lot of the media interpreted his follow up comments as a qualification of this statement.
He actually said: "I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That's what our country is about."
--which an even stronger defense of religious freedom.
People should recall would have been wrong for him to endorse the building of a specific place of worship. Can you imagine the furor if he had said something like they should build a Unitarian Church in Wasilla, Alaska next Sarah Palin?
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I find it annoying that a lot of the media interpreted his follow up comments as a qualification of this statement.
He actually said: "I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That's what our country is about."
--which an even stronger defense of religious freedom.
People should recall would have been wrong for him to endorse the building of a specific place of worship. Can you imagine the furor if he had said something like they should build a Unitarian Church in Wasilla, Alaska next Sarah Palin?
This was a strong stand.
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