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To: JohnM who wrote (142611)	8/14/2010 7:48:20 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541146

In 1965, I wonder how, "Would you like a black family to move in next door?" would have polled. The data probably exists somewhere in the Gallup archives. Thank goodness we don't take every important issue of principle and throw it to the mob to rip to shreds.

To: JohnM who wrote (142611)	8/14/2010 9:46:20 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 541146

>>I assume you also saw the numbers from, I think, the same poll in which almost a mirror image said they thought the Cordoba folk had the right to build there.<< Indeed. There are a lot of people who believe they have the right to build there, but who think that they should not do it. The Cordoba Initiative should just voluntarily find another site for their center. I have more respect for that viewpoint than I do for the no-mosques-here-until-there-are-churches-in-Saudi-Arabia stance. I still disagree with them, however. They are entirely missing the point of the building of that cultural center, for one thing, and they are also looking at all muslims as being responsible for 9/11. Timothy McVeigh was a Catholic. And I'm wondering whether people would object to some group deciding to build a Catholic church near the site of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City. I'm guessing there wouldn't be much of an outcry about that.