http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704282504575471870674163414.html

I thought this was an interesting article. Turning religious freedom around, to see if all the people who support the building of that Mosque will defend this churches freedoms.

Clever move if you ask me.

But they are breaking the law... Local officials have denied a permit for the bonfire on the church's grounds

Did the cultural centre with a mosque close to ground zero break the law?

Oh, Lord.

This is just wrong. This is exactly like the mosque. They have a right, but it's just wrong.

They don't have a right. It is agains the law.

This is quite different than the mosque. This is meant to provoke in an inflamatory and negative way. While it is debatably if the Mosque itself is meant to be provacative, it is certainly not meant to inspire hatred or wrath. This very much is. It's the immature asshat's way to respond to the Mosque.

Something like passing out pamphlets for the Church (if those pamphlets were positive in tone) in front of the mosque might have been proper, but this is just meant to foster a lower level of dialogue.

But is it because of religion, or safety reasons? The article leaves that part out.

If it's for religous reasons, I would defend the people that want to burn the Quran because of religous freedom.

If it's for safety reasons, then I don't really know.

Too bad we'll never know what reason it's REALLY for....

It is also illegal to burn the American flag.

Very interesting indeed. The fact that the local officials denied the burning isn't really part of the point here. They could just as easily gone to the beach to do this or somewhere else where there can be fires. The point is that they're burning the Quran, a freedom they should have, and of course you know the ones shouting "religious freedom!" for the Mosque might be singing different tunes over this. Although the situations are a bit different, i do find it somewhat ironic.

If you are going to burn books like the Nazis, just burn all the Qurans and Bibles and be done with this fairytale bullshit retards are dying over.

I'm OK with the mosque and I'm OK with it.  Then again, I'm an atheist, so I think they should throw the bible in that fire also.