Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
ABC World News Sunday aired a report last night which included this tidbit of information not widely reported, GOP Jumps on President Obama's Ground Zero Mosque Comments:
"Frankly, Ground Zero is hallowed ground. … Two blocks away is not so hallow ground," said Rep. Jerry Nadler, the Democrat whose district includes the lower Manhattan neighborhood where the community center would be built.
In fact, within four blocks of Ground Zero there are two strip clubs, an adult and lingerie shop and an Off-Track Betting parlor.
UPDATE I: Ahhh, Sacred Ground | Talking Points Memo:
Welcome to the New York Dolls strip club, about a block from the proposed site of the Cordoba House Islamic cultural center.
UPDATE II: 9/11 Families To Conservatives:We're Not All Anti-'Mosque'
But in fact, no cohesive position has emerged from the thousands of 9/11 families who have been politically influential on many issues in the past. One group which has opposed war has come out strongly in favor of the mosque project, known as Cordoba House. Others have avoided even addressing the issue.
"There is no simple, singular 9/11 group who really should or could speak for all 9/11 family members," said Donna Marsh O'Connor of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a coalition of more than 250 families which recently endorsed the mosque. Since the endorsement, the membership numbers have grown, she said.
O'Connor told TPM in an interview that it's unfair for groups like Debra Burlingame's 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America to act as if they are representing everyone who lost loved ones in the attacks. O'Connor's 29-year-old daughter Vanessa, pregnant at the time, was killed working on the 93rd floor of one of the twin towers.
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Burlingame has gotten the lion's share of the attention, in part because she's affiliated with Liz Cheney. Peter Gadiel's organization 9/11 Families for a Secure America also opposes the Islamic center. But, former TPMer Justin Elliott noted over at Salon that few of the people who originated the fight were actually affiliated with the 9/11 families.
Despite there being no unified voice, a meme has emerged that the families of the victims of 9/11 are unified in being hurt by the plans.
H/t ballon-juice.com