But your only refutation of Sekulow’s argument is to say that if the arson burns your house down, you have to step back and let the neighborhood busybodies build what they think is a tribute to themselves where your house was.
Just slow down and think carefully about it—you’re the ridiculous statist.
No, as Mayor Bloomberg pointed out the islamic community center is being built on private property according to the wishes of the owner of the land.
Sekulow is asking the government to prohibit a private landowner from building what he wants on his own land.
His justification is that the criminal act which destroyed the previous structure was a “historic event” and that this gives the government the right to prohibit the landowner from rebuilding whatever he chooses on his own land.
Sekulow is the one making a nonsensical statist argument.