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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – A Roman Catholic parish in New York City on Thursday voted against selling one of its properties to a Muslim organization that planned to erect a mosque there, yielding to local residents' opposition. The Staten Island parish's decision against the sale of its abandoned convent to the Muslim American Society comes as a another proposed mosque faces criticism for being located too close to the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in Manhattan. The Rev. Keith Fennessy, leader of the Saint Margaret Mary parish on the borough of Staten Island, had chosen in June...

There's a time and a place for everything. For example, there may be nothing wrong with building a museum of Japanese military history, but would the place for that be Pearl Harbor? How about our First Amendment right to speak out -- that's important, isn't it? So does that mean it's supposed to be okay for the God hates f*gs crackpots to protest at funerals? How about burning an American flag? Know how the US Flag Code suggests you get rid of a flag? The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem...

Huge, massive turnout! Easily several thousand. People lined up doubled up along the sidewalk and across the street. Peaceful demonstration with one minor disturbance from possible infiltrators, updates to follow. Uploading lots, and lots of VIDEO. Take a look at the photo slide show.