Gibbs said it about Pastor Terry Jones’ planned Koran burning. I say it about the suggestion that the White House might call Pastor Jones and seek to persuade him to not do it. No, not because I am for the burning. (Read my last post.) But because the precedent of a White House telling a Pastor not to do what is legal is terrifying. As I write this, a judge has ruled that the policy of disallowing open gays in the military is unconstitutional. How long until some white house calls me to tell me that my policy of only marrying men and women is a “monumentally terrible idea.” And I thought it was this administration that constantly left their legal petitions in the large wall supposedly erected between church and state.
Others in the church should be calling Pastor Jones. The state should not. That is a “monumentally terrible idea.”
Administration Considers Calling Florida Pastor in Bid to Halt Koran Burning
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that administration officials are discussing whether to reach out to a Florida pastor to urge him not to go forward with plans to burn the Koran this weekend.
After a string of warnings were issued Wednesday and Thursday about the potential for violence if the book-burning proceeds, Gibbs confirmed that the administration is considering calling Jones.
“There are discussions inside of the government of doing that,” Gibbs said. “This puts the lives of our troops in direct danger.”
Gibbs called the protest a “monumentally terrible idea.”
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