http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41325.html
This article discusses how Obama immediately decided to allow the mosque to be built not to far from ground zero. Obama consulted a few of his close colleagues about what to do and in less than 24 hours he publicly spoke on it. He believes that it would be unfair to not allow them to build their holy home their just because of what happened in the past with ground zero. Unfortunately other member of the government were highly upset to find out that he had made this decision without going through them and how he made a public speech about it.
What Obama did by allowing them to build a mosque was following the constitution. Although many people felt that it was the wrong thing to do it actually wasn't. If people have the freedom of speech then they are allowed to freely practice their religion as long as it isn't conflicting with other peoples rights. Because of that it also means they are allowed to worship their god anywhere no matter if their race caused a lot of death and ground zero was built for that specific reason and they want to build it two blocks away. Allowing them not to build it where they wanted would seem wrong and unconstitutional to many.
I understand that Obama wanted to make it clear that allowing them not to build where they chose would be unconstitutional, but he could've handled the situation better. Instead of him just making that decision basically on his own, he should have discussed the situation with the other branches of government. I'm pretty sure his discussion would not have changed, but it probably wouldn't be such a problem if he would have allowed time and a small debate to happen with the people he works with, so that they won't feel left out of any of the decision making.
Thrush, Glenn. "Barack Obama's Mosque Moment Frustrates Dems - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com." Politics, Political News - POLITICO.com. 21 Aug. 2010. Web. 23 Aug. 2010. <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41325.html>.
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