[montag813]

What kind of conservative makes a statement like that? Texas is a sovereign state within the Union. No one owns 'Texas'.

What I meant is Texas and the entire American Southwest is sovereign U.S. territory.

[Zemo]

Sovereignty has nothing to do with the possession of property. Only whose flag flies over the property.

In any case I offered a proposal for returning this Church in question back to the church it once belonged to @ # 58:

If Turkey was smart it would give to the Phanar the now Hagia Sophia museum allowing it to be restored to a church and it would not only get into the EU quicker but would make billions in tourist and pilgrim money it would also possibly allow healing between Greeks and Turks to take place and end the enmity. I would support having a portion of this hypothetically restored Hagia Sophia church have a mosque like the set up at St. Cathrine's monastery in the Sinai.

To which a Turkish forum member suggested I should kiss his ass for my trouble.