Ulster County Legislator Kevin Roberts, a Republican from Walkill, N.Y., about 70 miles north of New York City, also said he would likely not reintroduce the measure, which would have urged city and state officials and U.S. President Barack Obama "to use all legal measures" to prevent the proposed center's construction.
The draft resolution said the Legislature supported "the fundamental right to build any religious center in the country, but we do not support the right to build it anywhere".
Roberts, whose resolution spoke of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist-attack site as "sacred ground," pulled the measure about an hour before the legislature's monthly session after Chairman Fred Wadnola, a Republican from Lake Katrine, N.Y., told him he thought the resolution was not "appropriate," the Daily Freeman of Kingston, N.Y., reported.
Still, the session drew a firestorm of public criticism.
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