Ted Olson, who is a 9/11 widower, defends Cordoba House.

[backscatter712]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/911-widower-ted-olson-obama-was-right-on-cordoba-house.php?ref=fpblg

President Obama's position in support of the right of a Muslim organization to build a community center near Ground Zero in New York is now picking up the endorsement of a very prominent 9/11 widower: Former Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson.

Olson's wife, the late conservative author and activist Barbara Olson, was a passenger aboard the plane that was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon. This afternoon, Olson appeared on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC show to discuss his current high-profile legal work on behalf of gay marriage. Mitchell then also asked Olson for his opinion about the Cordoba House issue.

"Well it may not make me hap-- popular with some people, but I think probably the president was right about this," Olson responded. "I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices, or structures, or places of religious worship or study, where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith. And I don't think it should be a political issue. It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue, either. I believe Gov. Christie from New Jersey said it well -- that this should not be in that political, partisan marketplace."

[Jennicut]

1. Good for Olson! To me, to block this by the Govt. creates a precedent against religious

freedom.

[backscatter712]

2. Indeed. He's doing the right thing. n/t

[damntexdem]

3. Yes, but for the right, Ted Olsen is already 'tainted' by his opposition to Prop 8.

His current comments just add to his sins. He's strayed from the RW haters' fold and is now working for the Devil -- or worse, for the liberals.

;-)

[backscatter712]

4. Does this mean that this wedge issue is driving a wedge in the right wing for a change?

If so, we need to hammer harder!!!