{"id":302,"date":"2010-08-23T17:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lynnvsekulow\/2010\/08\/how-about-some-tolerance.html"},"modified":"2010-08-23T17:10:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:10:45","slug":"how-about-some-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lynnvsekulow\/2010\/08\/how-about-some-tolerance.html","title":{"rendered":"How About Some Tolerance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay, <\/p>\n

You explained your legal argument (I still don’t believe it’s
\na winning one), but you fail to address the broader issue. That is, why can’t
\nAmericans be tolerant enough to respect the rights of all, whether they agree with them
\nor not?<\/p>\n

So far, when it comes to the so-called “Mosque at Ground
\nZero,” we have failed to show any tolerance.  <\/span>And that’s a shame, particularly because, as Allen G. Breed
\nwrote<\/a> for the Associated Press, “the Founding Fathers made sure the concept of
\ntolerance was woven into the very fabric of the young American republic.” <\/p>\n

George Washington promised that we will have a government “which
\nto bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” Yet Muslim
\nAmericans have been made to feel like second-class citizens and have been
\nattacked simply for wanting to practice their faith, which I mentioned on Al
\nJazeera<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I can understand why this is such a sensitive and difficult
\nsituation for some, but there is no justification for the way many Americans
\nhave reacted to this Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

I’d like to see Americans come together and respect people from
\nall backgrounds.  <\/span>I’ll leave you with a
\nthought from the Rev. Monty Knight, president of American’s United’s
\nCharleston, S.C. Chapter, who contributed an op-ed to the Post and Courier<\/i> yesterday.<\/p>\n

“My life has been enriched by relationships with people
\ndifferent from myself, religiously or otherwise – enough, in fact, for me to conclude
\nthat the surest way to rob any of us of our humanity is to pay too much
\nattention to how we have been labeled,” he said<\/a>. “The First Amendment reflects
\nthe highest and noblest vision of our great nation. And for many of us, at
\nleast, that means we are most Christian when we understand, accept and respect
\nthose who aren’t.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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