.... He had gone to the town hall meeting with no view about the sale of the convent to the Muslim group. “I could care less,” Mr. Finnegan said. “If they need it and want it and it was going to help the community, and they would work together, fine. If it’s not needed and not wanted, and it’s going to be put there, that’s not good for anybody. Not the community, not the members of the mosque.”
He was not surprised, he said, by the negative response to his question. “They were not booing at me,” he said. “They just said ‘no’ when I asked if they would work with members of the mosque.” [New York Times] Read more [via National Secular Society]