Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (who is Mormon) has now weighed in against the Park51 Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan.
The project should “be built someplace else,” Reid said Monday through a spokesman, after Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle demanded he take a position on the matter.
It’s not a proud day for freedom of religion when a prominent member of the number two most disliked major religion in America effectively sides against a honest project by the number one most disliked major religion in America.
Especially when Mormons have just recently come through our own years-long struggle to build an LDS temple in Center City Philadelphia after Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter tried to extract a six-figure sum from the Church, a deal the Philadelphia Inquirer said “reeked of extortion.”
Sigh.
