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Originally Posted by d-ray657
James and Chas, you take pretty practical views, but do you agree that is would be wrong for the government to prohibit a group from building on the basis of their faith.
BTW, one of my favorite religious sites is in that area: the John Street Church. It is the first Methodist church building in the United States.
Regards,
D-ray
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It is not the governments duty to deny people their civil liberties.
But I would probably inform them that the city wasn't going to bear the costs of stationing a battalion of police around their building to keep the locals from burning it down every night.
In other words, it's a big world, and there are better places for them to build their mosque.
Trouble will find you, you don't have to go looking for it. IMHO, that is precisely what they are doing.
Chas