Personally, I find the “mosque at Ground Zero” – the Islamic worship center that is being planned for construction not far away from where the two towers of the World Trade Center once stood – to be as big a “non-issue” as there’s been in recent memory. It, like too many other things, is a distraction from matters that are of more dire priority.

So I honestly haven’t given the issue much thought until someone over the weekend – and a devout Christian, incidentally – remarked that he hadn’t seen one rational argument as to why there shouldn’t be a mosque built at that location.

After spending the past few days ruminating on it, I have to conclude… that my friend has observed accurately. And that there even might be more good reasons to allow the mosque to be constructed than raw emotion might have us believe.

My gray matter ...