I have never in my life seen liberals this passionate about property rights.
Imagine the following scenarios then tell me what you think the left’s reaction would be:
- A fundamentalist Christian organization opens up a community center next door to an abortion clinic
- The southern Baptists erect a church and recreation center across the street from a Gay and Lesbian Outreach Center
- A purveyor of sex toys and porn flicks opens up a major outlet next door to an elementary school (actually, the left might be okay with this one)
- The NRA opens up it’s headquarters next door to Columbine High School
- The museum of German Military History opens its headquarters across the street from the Holocaust Museum
Oh, and let’s not forget how supportive the left was of private property rights back when the Kelo case was decided.
America has endured three decades of left wing political correctness where people have had their reputations destroyed for merely uttering what the left deems to be an insensitive remark. We have campus speech codes where 18 year old students get expelled from school for saying the words “water buffalo.” And the left can’t bring itself to see the construction of a Mosque a block from Ground Zero as an insensitive affront to Christian Americans?
Does anyone really doubt that if it were a group of anti-Muslim Christians who had murdered thousands of Muslims in a mosque at ground zero that there would be outrage from the left (and Muslims all over the world, for that matter) at the construction of a Christian outreach center at that very site?
And do you really think Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama would have given speeches supporting its construction?
I don’t.
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1 New York Mosque Hypocrite Alert at Taxes // Aug 18, 2010 at 8:31 pm
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2 Clay Boggess // Aug 19, 2010 at 9:08 am
So they can build a mosque at ground zero and we cannot even pray in our own schools? This is really twisted!
3 Peter // Aug 19, 2010 at 12:09 pm
There is a double standard, but I assume that those supporting the building of the mosque on private property would not support Muslim prayer in schools anymore than they would support Christian prayer.
4 Ben // Aug 19, 2010 at 10:03 pm
There is no hypocrisy here. There is a huge difference between the public taking of property for arguably public uses in exchange for just compensation and the private use of property. Were NYC to announce that it wanted to purchase and tear down an abandon building and to replace it with a mosque, synagogue, church, etc., in exchange for just compensation then I assure you that there would be little support from either side of the aisle. The greater hypocrisy here is that many of those arguing against the cultural center/mosque are those that believe fervently that the federal government (and liberal elitists living in NYC) should stay out of their lives and yet are daily on the radio/internet/television demanding that this not be built.
This whole thing is non-issue and should not be news. It is another example of finding a wedge issue to prey on people’s fears.
5 Peter // Aug 20, 2010 at 9:28 am
Ben,
Thanks for the comment. It’s legal and it’s wrong.
Just because you have a right do do something doesn’t make it right to do it.
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