Koran Burning Is Insensitive, Unnecessary; Pastor Jones, Please Stand Down
.by Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 5:13pm.
Book burning is antithetical to American ideals. People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero. I would hope that Pastor Terry Jones and his supporters will consider the ramifications of their planned book-burning event. It will feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance. Don’t feed that fire. If your ultimate point is to prove that the Christian teachings of mercy, justice, freedom, and equality provide the foundation on which our country stands, then your tactic to prove this point is totally counter-productive.
Our nation was founded in part by those fleeing religious persecution. Freedom of religion is integral to our charters of liberty. We don’t need to agree with each other on theological matters, but tolerating each other without unnecessarily provoking strife is how we ensure a civil society. In this as in all things, we should remember the Golden Rule. Isn’t that what the Ground Zero mosque debate has been about?
- Sarah Palin
No she didn't write this. This was ghosted sure as shootin'. Look at the choice of words, the sentence structure, the cadence. Words like antiethical and ramifications rarely appear in her work let alone in the same thought set. Read it in "her voice in your mind". If you can hear her utter these words...well you can't.