After eight years of faith based initiatives under the "W" administration the language to separate church and state has become so muddied that the 'faith based initiative' could actually be seen as an assault against public employees again, give the radical agenda of so many other Republican governors.
It seems to me that taking a faith based state law to the level of Amendment to the State Constitution is inappropriate and simply getting closer to making precedent that ends the separation at all. I do view this as an assault against the Constitution of the USA.
...An effort to derail (click title to entry - thank you) a state constitutional amendment that would enable religious organizations to deliver state services is an ill-conceived "Hail Mary" ploy, defenders say.
Alleging a violation of church-state separation and a "misleading" ballot summary, the Florida Education Association and a handful of left-wing religious leaders want Amendment 7 thrown off the ballot before Floridians can vote on it in 2012...
Holy Men don't want this either. The ACLU is not evil either. I mean honestly. Some of the dialogue from the Political Right in this country is horrible. They have no other words except words of bias and hate. No real arguments based in facts or understanding, only appealing to the least in all of us. I want to know if the Bible or religion is under siege by the USA government, because, the only church closings I noted were brought on when parishes could not continue to afford to keep them open. Go figure. They have non-profit status and still can't' survive financially. And of course there are ways to care for the poor other than compassion under a Republican dictate, right? NOT !!!
Alleging a violation of church-state separation and a "misleading" ballot summary, the Florida Education Association and a handful of left-wing religious leaders want Amendment 7 thrown off the ballot before Floridians can vote on it in 2012...
Holy Men don't want this either. The ACLU is not evil either. I mean honestly. Some of the dialogue from the Political Right in this country is horrible. They have no other words except words of bias and hate. No real arguments based in facts or understanding, only appealing to the least in all of us. I want to know if the Bible or religion is under siege by the USA government, because, the only church closings I noted were brought on when parishes could not continue to afford to keep them open. Go figure. They have non-profit status and still can't' survive financially. And of course there are ways to care for the poor other than compassion under a Republican dictate, right? NOT !!!
...Florida's largest teachers' union (click here) joined the American Civil Liberties Union and several rabbis and ministers seeking to halt a 2012 ballot measure they say falsely couches a push to allow school vouchers in the language of religious freedom. The groups filed a lawsuit against the secretary of state Wednesday to prevent the measure.
"We’re trying to get it off the ballot because it’s misleading," Andy Ford, president of the Florida Education Association, told The Huffington Post. "Our suit is saying that you need truth in advertising, so don't call it religious freedom."
The amendment, which will appear for a vote on the 2012 ballot, would change a piece of Florida's constitution known as a "Blaine Amendment" that denies public dollars from being spent "directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious....
