I've spent a bit of time in the past few weeks asking "Who Is Steve Southerland?" Some of what I've found has been confusing at best, but I'm surprised and happy to let you know that someone in the Florida Congressional District 2 Republican Primary has some sense when it comes to building the mosque near Ground Zero. Last night at a forum in Bay County, Steve Southerland expressed his support for building the mosque. Glad to see Southerland come out in support, especially following Ron McNeil’s comments, which I wrote about yesterday.
In case you missed it here’s the McNeil position:
“I’m totally against it. If I had my way, it would pretty much be over my dead body,” said Ron McNeil, a candidate for the U.S. House District 2 seat, who was referring to a controversial plan to build an Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. “That religion is against everything America stands for. If we have to let them build it, make them build it nine stories underground, so we can walk above it as citizens and Christians.”
You can view Southerland’s comments in the video below:
Looks like Southerland is the only Republican in the race who supports the mosque. Finally some tolerance and support from a Republican candidate on this issue. Good job Steve Southerland!
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Steve Southerland sounds eerily like President Obama when speaking about the proposed Ground Zero mosque. "In this country, we can’t say we’re going to honor the Constitution over here on this, but we’re going to ignore the Constitution over here,” Mr. Southerland said. Sound familiar? But he didn’t stop there. He sent a message to those who may be questioning Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s right to build the $100 million mosque. “I believe that is to defame the men and women who have died to give us the freedom.” I'm sure Mr. Rauf wholeheartedly agrees, and that's alarming considering that Mr. Rauf refuses to denounce Hamas (a terrorist organization and enemy of the U.S.) and refuses to speak against the Quran's directive to kill anyone who leaves Islam. When Mr. Southerland brought up the issue of morality, it was too little, too late. Had enough? Vote for Scholl.
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