David Van Os On "Mosque Saga"

I have posted before about how I think the right-wing rage on the muslim community center being built a few blocks from where the twin towers once stood is nothing more than an issue of religious freedom. And religious freedom, like other freedoms, is not something you can have just a little bit of -- you either have it or you don't.

The fact is that most right-wingers, while they proclaim their love for the Constitution and for religious freedom, do not really love either. There idea of political freedom is to demonize anyone who disagrees with them, and for religious freedom is to have the "freedom" to force there own religion on everyone else.

You cannot have religious freedom where you can change or censor whatever "offends" you. That's not freedom. True religious freedom gives ALL religions equal rights, and that includes the right of muslims to build a community center anywhere the law would allow another religion (like christianity) to build one -- regardless of who is offended.

Yesterday, I received the following missive from the great Texas progressive, David Van Os. I thought it was good enough to pass it on to my readers (and I agree with every word of it). Here is what Mr. Van Os had to say:

The feaux-news New York City mosque saga is a mountain out of a molehill, but it is also very frightening to see once again how vicious, dishonest, and tyrannical the phony journalistic and political forces of darkness are in modern America, and how weak, waffly, and whimpering the institutional Democrats are. Instead of standing up for the Constitution with conviction, passion, and righteous anger at the evil distortions, the Beltway Dems run in terror once again. (Big surprise.) The very simple fact of the matter is that under the Constitution which the right-wing terrorists claim to love but actually hate, law-abiding people have the perfect right to erect a structure for their religious group on their private property. Those who are making an issue out of it do NOT love our Constitution and those like Harry Reid who are kow-towing to the right wing terrorists should be ashamed of themselves. Respectfully, David Van Os