Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean believes the Ground Zero mosque should be moved.

Rejecting the far-left’s argument that opposing the mosque means attacking the First Amendment, Dean called for the Cordoba House to be moved elsewhere during an appearance on WABC. I’ve included a rough transcript below:

Dean: I gotta believe that there has to be a compromise here. This isn’t about the rights of Muslims to have a worship center. Or Jews, or Christians, or anyone else to have a place to worship.

This is something we ought to be able to work out with people of good faith. And we have to understand that it is a real affront people who lost their lives, including Muslims. That site doesn’t belong to any particular religions, it belongs to all Americans and all faiths.

So I think a good, reasonable compromise could be worked out without violating the principle that people out to be able to worship as they see fit.

Interviewer: You’re calling for a compromise. So are you calling for the mosque to be moved?

Dean: Well, I think another site would be a better idea. But I would look to do that with the cooperation of the people who are trying to build the mosque.

I believe the people who are trying to build the mosque are trying to do something good. But there’s no point starting off trying to do something good if it’s going to meet with an enormous resistance from a lot of folks.

Dean goes on to commend the idea of building dialogue and asserting his belief that most American Muslims are moderate. He does, however, say that Islam is “stuck in the 12th century” in many countries, pointing to common stoning sentences in Afghanistan and Iran.

Overall, not bad. In fact, it’s better than I expected from Dean. And it’s significantly better than the line we get from Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Good for Dean. Maybe some fellow Democrats will listen to him.