Dove World Outreach Center our local beacon of “Christian love and tolerance” and furniture store sure is milking this incident for all the publicity it can get. Like I've said before they may have the right to burn Muslim Holy books, but why ?

Reminds me a story my late father in law told me. At 17 a PFC he was in the first wave of Infantry that went ashore at Utah Beach on D-Day. He came out of that conflict with a Compat Infantry Badge, a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, but he didn't have to go at 17. Had he waited a year until he was 18 he would have just come out of training when the war ended. I asked him why he went so young, he said “because the Nazi burned books...”

From the Gainesville Sun …

Gainesville Fire Rescue on Wednesday again denied Dove World Outreach Center’s permit that would allow the church to hold a Quran burning on its lawn on Sept. 11.

Last week, the department denied the permit request because, under the city’s fire prevention ordinance, open burning and outdoor burning are prohibited, said Gene Prince, the department’s interim chief.

This time, the request was denied because it didn’t include any new information.“The request did not change,” Prince said Thursday. “They just wanted us to reconsider.”

On Wednesday, the department faxed and mailed a letter to the church’s senior pastor, Terry Jones, to let him know for the second time that the city wouldn’t allow the burning.

But the church, which has about 50 members, has indicated that even if it doesn’t have a permit, it will still burn the Muslim holy book.

It's sad that it falls on the shoulders of Fire/Rescue to uphold public decency and do the right thing.... Thank God for such people.