George, I have just a minute so I only make one comment in the form of a question in regards to Ms Wyant's note.

What about all of those statues to the Confederate greats in our town square and throughout the South? Sensitivity is really the only argument Ms Wyant makes on the mosque issue and it is a bit hollow. But throughout our Commonwealth many memorials to our dark past are present in the very Christian Churches that sponsored and promoted slavery, separate but equal, etc.

Blake Caravati (Electronic mail, August 25, 2010)