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“While the Muslim community has the right to build the mosque, they are abusing that right by needlessly offending so many people who have suffered so much," he said. "The right and moral thing for President Obama to have done was to urge Muslim leaders to respect the families of those who died and move their mosque away from ground zero. Unfortunately, the president caved into political correctness.” [emphasis added]
— Published August 14, 2010 | FoxNews.com

Separation of church and state is one of our fundamental Constitutional guarantees. It is, nevertheless, not at issue in the present instance. The controversy swirling about does not concern the legality of the proposed building of the mosque; that is a protected right. The controversy concerns the perceived reason for the mosque's proposed location, the perceived amoral, unethical, and unpatriotic nature of the undertaking, as well as the perceived obligations of the President, to whom the electorate has entrusted the moral, ethical, and patriotic leadership of the Nation, not just the command of our armed forces.

What is at issue is the fundamental Constitutional obligation of the American President, namely, to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and [to] preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States". And as such, it is clear that this generally-stated obligation to the Nation includes the obligation to faithfully represent the moral, ethical and patriotic principles of its people. We do not require an affirmation of the legality of the controversial endeavor. We require a proper condemnation of its improper design.

I would submit that the present state of our disunion includes strikingly similar elements to those that existed during the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and even the prelude to the Second World War. We are polarized to the extent that party affiliation overwhelms allegiance to the Flag; regional associations overwhelm National pride; economic recession is threatening to metastasize into depression; and a nuclear-armed axis-of-evil is gathering undeterred in opposition to everything we once held dear.

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We would truly be blessed to have a George Washington, an Abraham Lincoln, or a Franklin Roosevelt at the helm. Instead, we are cursed to have The Very Antithesis of The Big Three.

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