This is not the issue and never was the issue. He is diverting on to this issue, as are many, President, and Imam/s etc. It has NOTHING to do with freedom of religion. Say NO! to sharia law. NEVER Sharia.
Notice! do not fall for this absurd excuse for making this issue be about religious FREEDOM.
It is the Islamic style/habit to build/obliterate right on top of other religion's sites; and then claiming the site had always been theirs.
Sure, that's what the mosque opponents have been claiming: non-Muslims have a definitive claim on that part of town. They will say anything, no matter how feebleminded, to bolster the lazy liberal sentiments of those who are still paying good money for their desperate propaganda sheet.