Bloomberg Supports Mosque  At Ground Zero

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is  refusing to allow members of the clergy to play a role in the city’s commemoration of the tenth anniversary of 9/11.  He insists the ceremonies should focus on the families of those killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

New York City Council member Fernando Cabrera, a pastor in the Bronx, said faith was one of the “pillars that carried us through” the days after the attacks and called religious leaders “the spiritual and emotional backbone.”

“When you have a situation where people are trying to find meaning, where something is bigger than them, when you have a crisis of this level, they often look to the clergy," added Cabrera, who said excluding religious leaders from the ceremony was "wiping out the recognition of the importance that spirituality plays on that day."

"This is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," said Rudy Washington, a deputy mayor under Bloomberg’s predecessor Rudy Giuliani, who organized a nationally televised interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium in the days after the 2001 attacks.

"I feel like America has lost its way," added Washington. “I am very upset about it. This is crazy.”

Bloomberg supported the right of Muslims to build Park51, a 13-story community center at Ground Zero, saying he “shouldn't be in the business of picking" one religion over another.

“I think it's fair to say if somebody was going to try, on that piece of property, to build a church or a synagogue, nobody would be yelling and screaming," Bloomberg said. "The fact of the matter is that Muslims have a right to do it, too."

Bloomberg wants no Christian involvement in 9/11 ceremonies.  He is refusing Christian involvement.  He supports a Mosque at Ground Zero though.  Bloomberg seems to believe the Muslims have more rights than the Christianity America was founded on.

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