The debate on the Ground Zero mosque continues. It has become a national political issue. Generally speaking, it breaks politically along liberal\/conservative lines. There are exceptions, but they are exceptions. Well, there is a new twist.<\/p>\n
The same liberal Democrats who support the Ground Zero mosque and tell the conservative Republicans to ‘get over it’ are protesting a rally to be held in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. 47 years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. <\/p>\n
Andrews Breitbart’s blog Big Peace<\/a> reports some of the comments by civil rights leaders:<\/p>\n “Beck’s choice of day and place for the rally “is insulting, is what it is,” Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, said in an interview Monday. “August 28 is something special. It is a day that means something in American history because it was the demonstration in the United States in support of civil rights.”<\/em><\/p>\n “Beck’s plans are “an effort to embarrass and poke a finger in the eye of the civil rights community because Glenn Beck and his public utterances don’t necessarily demonstrate a consistency with the vision of King.””<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n They might have looked at the rally a little more closely before they made their statements. The rally is being called the “Restoring Honor Rally<\/a>” at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is being sponsored by Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin will be attending. The rally will also include David Barton, founder of WallBuilders<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to the article:<\/p>\n “(Glenn) Beck said that he has no plans on turning his rally into a partisan political rally but intends it to be a rally to, “honor the troops, unite the American people under the principles of integrity and truth, and make a pledge to restore honor within ourselves and our country.” Beck further says that the date was not a conscious choice but just fit his schedule.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That does not sound like anything Martin Luther King, Jr., would have objected to.<\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n “Democrat’s opinion we should refuse to allow Beck, an American who wants to support his country’s military, to hold a rally because it falls on a certain day and is held at a certain location, but we should not oppose people that sport a foreign ideology antithetical to American principles to build at a place that will promulgate that ideology near the same spot where their fellows killed thousands of Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n “The pretzel logic the left employs is a wonder, indeed.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I guess the logic depends totally on who is involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The debate on the Ground Zero mosque continues. It has become a national political issue. Generally speaking, it breaks politically along liberal\/conservative lines. There are exceptions, but they are exceptions. Well, there is a new twist. The same liberal Democrats … Continue reading \n
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