The Issue: Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to not have any clergy speak at the 9/11 anniversary ceremony.
For a man whose dedication seems to be to the city and whose personal assets far outweigh the possible financial repercussions of taking a controversial stand, Mayor Bloomberg is being cravenly PC about a ceremony where religion is very much a part of the equation (“Prayers at Ground Zero,” Editorial, Aug. 25).
Ministers from the major religious traditions would be a very appropriate presence to such a memorial.
Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist religious representation is a show of solidarity against the evil that was perpetrated. Without this, the ceremony will be hollow — and a shallow, opportunistic political forum.Don Mills
Stuttgart, Germany
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The banning of the clergy from the 9/11 ceremony is proof that our civilization is doomed.
Good Christians will continue to turn the other cheek to this and virtually every other moral outrage that takes place in this country.
Joseph Dupont
Towanda, Pa.
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If the mayor doesn’t do an about-face, next election I will vote for the first politician who steps up to the podium and begins his speech with the words, “Let us pray.”
Bill Viggiano
Williston Park
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One of the first recorded deaths on 9/11 was that of a Catholic priest, Father Mychal Judge, beloved chaplain of the FDNY.
What an insult to his memory that his fellow clergy are prohibited from participating and honoring him and all of the other innocents murdered that day.
Political correctness runs amok, and this is pure cowardice on Bloomberg’s part. I thank God he was not the mayor on Sept. 11, 2001. Carole Campolo
East Hampton
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An East Coast earthquake and hurricane in the same week?
Bloomberg, are you sure you don’t want any clergy at your service?
Linda Harris
Fort Worth, Texas
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Bloomberg decided to allow an Islamic center near Ground Zero, while a church lot there remains a hole in the ground, and now he bans clerics from speaking at the memorial.
Mike Spaniola
Vail, Colo.