Hopefully this statement by Ted Olson, the chief attorney for George Bush in Bush vs. Gore and leading Republican lawyer, whose wife died when the plane she was on crashed into the Pentagon, will put the coup de grace on the argument that an Islamic Cultural Center somehow offends the families of those who were killed on 9-11.
Some of my readers may think I am overemphasizing this issue on a Pagan blog. I disagree and think this issue is one of the most important for us to be on the right side of, and very publicly so. I think this for spiritual reasons primarily, but also for political ones.