They Do Have A Right To Build A Mosque On Ground Zero--But That Right Does Have Limitations

In the debate about the plan to build a mosque at Ground Zero, the straw man that this is all about the right to build that mosque is getting a real workout.

Few argue that this is about the right to build that mosque, but even granting that right leaves the question of its limitations.


Jonah Goldberg writes about What the Mosque Debate Is, and Isn’t, About and notes:

The rights in question are not absolute and inviolable. Communities can regulate by time, place, and manner. Porn theaters can be zoned away from schools and slaughterhouses away from city centers. The question almost always boils down to whether such restrictions are reasonable or not, and that is the sort of thing Americans debate every day. The pretense that the professional Left (to use Robert Gibbs’s formulation) does not know this is one of the most transparent lies of recent political discourse.

So enough of the name calling.
The governor of New York offered land further away from Ground Zero for building the mosque--the offer was turned down.

Judging by the opposition to the implications of the mosque being so close to Ground Zero, just why is that offer not reasonable?

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