Gingrich doesn't object to bigot's ground zero church

[maddezmom]

Yesterday we told you about the launch this Sunday of the $8 million "9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero," created by a pastor who assails Muslims as pedophiles and gay people as perverts and who has a history of trying to profit from political controversies. The pastor, internet evangelist Bill Keller, is starting services this Sunday at a site just two blocks away from the former World Trade Center site.

So we reached out to several critics of the Park51 Muslim community center, many of whom have made the putative sanctity of the neighborhood around ground zero central to their argument against the mosque. Why should this anti-Muslim, anti-gay, and anti-Mormon pastor be allowed to deliver bigoted sermons -- and potentially profit off of the memory of Sept. 11 -- so close to the site?

So far most of the people and groups -- including the Anti-Defamation League and anti-mosque New York gubernatorial candidates Carl Paladino and Rick Lazio -- have simply not responded to our inquiries.

A spokesman for Newt Gingrich responded that the former speaker would not comment. Now, that position is actually consistent with Gingrich's argument against the mosque. He never focused on the sacredness of the neighborhood around ground zero, arguing instead that Park51 was somehow a monument to Islamist victory over the West.

more:http://www.salon.com/news/ground_zero_mosque/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/08/31/mosque_critics_silent_on_ground_zero_church

[ck4829]

1. This guy is ideologically closer to the 9/11 hijackers than the average American Muslim is

The right's silence on this speaks volumes.

K&R.

[KharmaTrain]

2. Opportunists Pick Their Spots...

This kinda falls within the old definitions of your "terrorist" being my freedom fighter. Besides pandering to fear and racism, the GOOP has become the "champion" of christianity...or at least playing that card to keep the fundies filling up the church busses. I can't think of any rushpublican who denounced Tim McVeigh or even will cite him as being a "christian terrorist"...and if you listen to the dogwhistles there are many who feel that McVeigh's attack against the over-encroaching government was "justified". Of course you won't hear a word of either denunciation of setting up a church on "sacred ground"...I'd even bet you'll see a few who see the chance to milk a controversy by defending the "idea".