Am I happy about it? No.
If I were president, I wouldn't be blabbing to anybody that would listen how supportive I am of it. But, I do have to agree with his point that they have the same right to practice their religion in this country as the Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans, etc. The people that will worship there didn't kill anybody on 9/11. I would doubt you would find any of them supportive of those who did. I understand the whole issue is a little taboo, and as I said before, I'm not crazy about the idea either. But if we block a mosque from being built down the road from the WTC site, I think that sort of opens a Pandora's Box in the future. Do we start blocking where Jehovah's Witnesses build Kingdom Halls? Where any religion that isn't mainstream Christianity builds their places of worship? Where does it end?