On Aug 21, 12:17*am, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,

*"Cojoes" wrote:
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The constitution, which contains freedom of religion, is NOT just a local
issue. Try again, this time go by facts of what was said.

* * I did. The main ways they are trying to stop the Mosque are not
freedom of religion issues. They are trying to stop it using local
zoning and other methods. It is whether or not the building should be a
historically preserved building and, now that the building commissioners
say it ain't, whether they followed their own procedures. *They don't
want them in, but they are using the local bureaucracy in a time-honored
manner that has been implemented to keep out strip joints, subsidized
housing or other kinds of NIMBY things for years.

Trashing the constitution, because you don't like a certain religion, is
Un-American.

* *But using the constitution, the part about equal protection, isn't..

--
* I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator
and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist

There was a tour of the inside of the building on "Aljazeera"
satellite TV the other day. It is already used as a mosque, meeting
place, library, etc and apparently has bee for some time. (Not
specified how much)