Kathleen Parker is an allegedly conservative columnist at the Washington Post, but if there’s any evidence she is, in fact, conservative, it’s certainly scant. About the only support for this allegation comes from liberals, who always cite her as a “conservative” they like.

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Here’s her latest.  You be the judge:

The Ground Zero mosque must be built

Right — you love it already, don’t you? An exercise in morally preening, fatuous sophistry now follows:

The mosque should be built precisely because we don’t like the idea very much. We don’t need constitutional protections to be agreeable, after all.

This point surpasses even all the obvious reasons for allowing the mosque, principally that there’s no law against it. Precluding any such law, we let people worship when and where they please. That it hurts some people’s feelings is, well, irrelevant in a nation of laws. And, really, don’t we want to keep it that way?

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Parker goes on to say that she, personally, would prefer the mosque to be built somewhere else, but hey: (more…)