{"id":28614,"date":"2010-08-18T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/rand-paul-announces-opposition-to-ground-zero-mosque\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:03:00","slug":"rand-paul-announces-opposition-to-ground-zero-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/rand-paul-announces-opposition-to-ground-zero-mosque.php","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul announces opposition to Ground Zero Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TGvcEPLfPEI\/AAAAAAAAMxU\/oXNfXzGDIho\/s1600\/RandPaulPatriotic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/730ac_RandPaulPatriotic.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Gary Howard, a spokesman for Rand Paul for Senate issued a statement to Politico this morning.<\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0810\/41196_Page2.html#ixzz0wxhGgsZG\">Politico<\/a>, \"Mosque debate strains tea party, GOP\":<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;While this is a local matter that should be decided by the people of New York, Dr. Paul does not support a mosque being built two blocks from ground zero,&rdquo; Howard said in the statement. &ldquo;In Dr. Paul's opinion, the Muslim community would better serve the healing process by making a donation to the memorial fund for the victims of Sept. 11.&rdquo; <\/p><\/blockquote><p>Paul was also quoted directly in an interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/libertymaven.com\/2010\/08\/18\/rand-paul-interview-on-the-ground-zero-mosque-federal-reserve-audit-gun-rights-money-bombs-and-more\/10496\/\">Liberty Maven<\/a>, released yesterday, as saying:<\/p><blockquote><p>While this is a local matter that will be decided by the people of New York, I do not support a mosque being built two blocks from Ground Zero. In my opinion, the Muslim community would better serve the healing process by making a donation to the memorial fund for the victims of September 11th.<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/730ac_7828681836623105417-3081369144737230672?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Howard, a spokesman for Rand Paul for Senate issued a statement to Politico this morning.From Politico, \"Mosque debate strains tea party, GOP\":&ldquo;While this is a local matter that should be decided by the people of New York, Dr. Paul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/rand-paul-announces-opposition-to-ground-zero-mosque.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}