WHYS at Civicus: Can you have too much religious freedom?
Post categories: Civicus
| 16:09 UK time, Monday, 23 August 2010
Two weeks ago we discussed whether to put the ground zero mosque story on the air. The only thing that was stopping us was that the initial spike in interest in the story had been the week before. In the end we decided we run with it, and here we are now with the debate getting bigger by the day. We should've known that journalist's pre-occupation with avoiding 'old' stories is not shared by most of you.
The latest development, is that two groups of protestors (one for, one against) . And the disagreement, hinges not on people's right to build a mosque in America, but their right to build one near Ground Zero.
So is religious freedom absolute? Or do we have to accept that extraordinary, unlikely or sensitive circumstances may give cause to curb that freedom?
