Hugh Hewitt: The Ground Zero mosque – why or why not?

Hugh Hewitt: “As a lawyer who has represented churches and religious schools over the past twenty years as various local governments have blocked various projects and uses, and as a law professor who knows the rule and the progeny of Employment Division v. Smith as well as the commands of the the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, I know that there are three key questions here. Should it be allowed to be built? If not, why not? And if the city approves the project, ought the federal government to attempt to stop it? These are three of the most interesting questions at the heart of American life today, and they ought to be posed not just to New Yorkers and pundits, but to every single candidate for Congress now and in 2012 and of course to President Obama and those who would seek to replace him . . . There has got to be one rule, and that one rule may not in the American constitutional tradition discriminate between faiths . . . I do not believe the Ground Zero mosque should be built.”