With the race to unseat Obama in the upcoming Presidential elections in the States, it's really good to know that all the candidates support the right to freedom of religion set down in the constitution.
Republican hopeful, Herman Cain, for example has been criticised - quite rightly - for supporting the views of a bunch of local residents in Murfreesboro near Nashville, Tennessee who don't want a new Islamic Centre built in their back yards.
There have been a number of protest by Christians who say they do not want Muslims worshiping nearby. Former Godfathers' (sic) Pizza boss Cain supports them, insisting that his views do not amount to religious discrimination because the Muslims are trying to inject Shariah law into the USA.
He goes on "They are using the Church part of the first amendment to infuse their Mosque in that community and the people do not like it." Well, that's what the first amendment is for, isn't it?
Well, I'm an Englishman so I do not profess to be an expert on the US constitution. I also know that in the States there are areas where there are strong Christian communities that you cross at your peril, but it does seem to me that in the land that holds itself out to be the beacon of liberty, this man would not really make a great President?