Posted on 08/25/2011 8:58:01 AM PDT by katiedidit1
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is under attack for refusing to allow members of the clergy to play a role in the city’s commemoration of the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
Bloomberg insists the ceremonies should focus on the families of those killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. He is also barring political speech. But pastors and politicians are lining up to lambast his decision, reports The Wall Street Journal.
"This is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," said Rudy Washington, a deputy mayor under Bloomberg’s predecessor Rudy Giuliani, who organized a nationally televised interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium in the days after the 2001 attacks.
"I feel like America has lost its way," added Washington. “I am very upset about it. This is crazy.”
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Hurricane Irene might have a say in this before it is all over.
Bloomberg could be gone by now but the idiots of New York decided to forgo their term limits and elect him again. Fools.
bloomberg the socialist.
Five people with portable megaphones and sycronized watches leading the crowd in the Lord's prayer in the middle of his speech.
If flash mobs can use technology to destroy, Christians should be able to use the same technology for good, n’est pas?
What a bloomin’ idiot.
How does an idiot personally amass multiple billions of dollars?
There will be hell to pay for that one.
Let’s ban all forms of language and just do it like on the planet of the Apes. THis is indeed where Bloomberg belongs, and Charlton Eston’s scene is prescient.
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