Romney: "Burning the Koran is Wrong"
Mitt Romney today spoke out against a Florida church's plans to burn a copy of the Koran. Politico reports:
Presumed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney came out Wednesday against the planned burning of the Quran by a Florida pastor, saying that doing so would endanger American troops.
“Burning the Quran is wrong on every level,” the former Massachusetts governor said in a statement to POLITICO. “It puts troops in danger, and it violates a founding principle of our Republic.”
The Rev. Terry Jones has been under pressure to not go forward with the planned burning of the Islamic text on Sept. 11 at his Dove World Outreach Church in Gainesville, Fla., but pledged Wednesday that he will proceed as planned.
"We are still determined to do it," Jones said on CBS’s “Early Show.”
While Romney was critical of the idea, he did not line up with those who have suggested that Jones should not be permitted to carry out his plan.
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