Good heavens! Sarah Palin actually says something intelligent and well thought-out!!!!
The Koran burn-threatening pastor is at the “Dove World Outreach Center” in Gainesville, Florida. This is irony you couldn’t buy.
Sarah Palin has made an excellent comment on the controversy. I never thought I’d write that! Here it is:
TweetBook burning is antithetical to American ideals. People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation — much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.
I would hope that Pastor Terry Jones and his supporters will consider the ramifications of their planned book-burning event. It will feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance. Don’t feed that fire. If your ultimate point is to prove that the Christian teachings of mercy, justice, freedom, and equality provide the foundation on which our country stands, then your tactic to prove this point is totally counter-productive.
Our nation was founded in part by those fleeing religious persecution. Freedom of religion is integral to our charters of liberty. We don’t need to agree with each other on theological matters, but tolerating each other without unnecessarily provoking strife is how we ensure a civil society. In this as in all things, we should remember the Golden Rule. Isn’t that what the Ground Zero mosque debate has been about?
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I’m not sure I agree with her that Mosques should be banned from the vicinity of Ground Zero.
Agreed Caron. I was just so dazzled by the rest of the stuff that I let that pass!
I agree that the rest of the stuff is more sensible than you would expect from Mrs Palin.