Should we ban all churches in certain areas?

Question

Because Muslims shouldn't have a mosque near ground zero do to the actions of a few extremists, we should also ban churches near certain areas do to the action of a few christian extremists. The following areas are where abortion activists killed people in the name of christianity and should be banned as well using that logic, right? wichita, kansas; pensacola, FL; brookline, MA; birmingham, AL; Amherst, NY; and Norfolk VA.



* March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of 1992. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Dr. Gunn's murder and was sentenced to life in prison.

* August 21, 1993 Dr. George Patterson, was shot and killed in Mobile, Alabama, but it is uncertain whether his death was the direct result of his profession or rather a robbery.[6][7]

* July 29, 1994: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot to death outside another facility in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings. Hill received a death sentence and was executed on September 3, 2003.
* December 30, 1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi, who prior to his arrest was distributing pamphlets from Human Life International,[8] was arrested and confessed to the killings. He died in prison and guards found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. Salvi had also confessed to a non-lethal attack in Norfolk, Virginia days before the Brookline killings.
* January 29, 1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Robert Rudolph, who was also responsible for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, was charged with the crime and received two life sentences as a result.
* October 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death at his home in Amherst, New York. His was the last in a series of similar shootings against providers in Canada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was convicted of Dr. Slepian's murder after finally being apprehended in France in 2001.
* May 31, 2009: Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed as he served as an usher at his church in Wichita, Kansas.[9]

Answer 1

I almost don't know where to begin you're so misguided.



1. There is no comparison between a single fringe person killing another person, and 9/11 where representatives of a type of Islam supported by hundreds of millions of people killed 3000 people and destroyed the world trade center buildings.



2. There are hundreds of Mosques in New York. The debate is over the plans to build one a few blocks from ground zero.



3. The Imam behind the planned Mosque has made multiple controversial statements in the past, including his call for the US to be more Sharia compliant, his refusal to label Hamas a terrorist organization, his belief that America brought 9/11 on itself, and his statement that Bin Laden was made in America.



4. If there is a church being built at a location that offends you, you are absolutely free to protest the building of the church at that location. You are free to ask government officials to not allow its construction at that location. If a pastor who had documented radical views that supported those who kill abortion doctors wanted to build a church next to an abortion clinic, I'm sure many in the pro-choice crowd would oppose that church.



5. Finally, violence against abortion doctors is very rare and isolated. You were only able to come up with 6 examples since 1993. Islamic terrorism is widespread throughout the world. Hardly a day goes by that doesn't see at least one person killed in the name of Islam.



Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Come on. Do you really believe this nonsense you put forth?

Answer 2

New churches? Not all churches, of course. No one is saying the mosques already in existence should be torn down. But if a church wanted to deliberately build on or as near as possible to the site of one of these locations and their stated purpose was "to restore relations between the victims and the religion of the killer," then heck yeah, I'd oppose it.



When there is a compelling state need, our rights can be limited. Libs have been happily restricting our rights for decades. Try protesting at an abortion clinic within so many feet of the front door. You'll get arrested.



Try building a home on wetlands. haha



Try yelling "fire" in a movie theatre. Or "hi, Jack" across the airport to your friend Jack.

Answer 3

If people insist on no mosque at ground zero then YES...



We need to stop being so narrowminded and prejudiced. The muslims who want to build the mosque there are different from the extremists from 9/11! DIFFERENT!!!!

They have freedom of religion and they have a right to build a mosque there.

Answer 4

Not only should it not be done, it's illegal and unconstitutional. Even if the organization in question is a Simon Cowell worshipping beaver cult, if it owns the land, it can do whatever the hell it wants within the bounds of the law, and those laws don't prevent exercising your first amendment rights/

Answer 5

Banning places of worship isn't going to solve anything. Why you think a policy of prohibition of this specific behavior would work is beyond me.

Answer 6

What left wing lunatic website came up with this stupid argument?



No mosque should be built in lower Manhattan, especially not two blocks from ground zero.



"A few extremists? LOL

Answer 7

That is the goal of the left, ban Christians and open the doors to the terrorist. Thanks for writing out your goals for all to see.

Answer 8

No.



Even though I loathe religion, I LOVE freedom.

Answer 9

Zoning laws do that regularly.