Archbishop Wester Claims Muslims Have ‘God-Given Right’ To Build Mosque

The radically pro-LGBT Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, issued a statement defending the building of a mosque within the archdiocese on Monday in response to concerns from the faithful.

In the July 27 statement, Archbishop Wester, who has a long history of pro-LGBT heterodoxy, responded to the faithful’s concerns about a proposal to build a mosque and community center in the North Valley of Albuquerque by falsely asserting that Muslims have a “God-given” right to worship freely. The archbishop also erroneously claimed that defending that so-called “right” is a “core element of Catholic teaching.”

“As Archbishop of Santa Fe and a resident of Albuquerque, I feel compelled to speak clearly and pastorally: our Muslim neighbors have the same God-given and constitutionally protected right to worship freely as every other faith community, including our own,” the archbishop wrote. “Defending that right is not only a civic duty but a core element of Catholic teaching.”

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