Florida Call To Action

[joreth]

We urgently need concerned Floridians to take action today to help protect religious liberty in our state. It only takes a minute to make your voice heard.

 

Here is the situation: a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution would repeal a 140-year old prohibition on using tax dollars to fund religious activities in Florida. If the amendment passes, the Florida state government will be able to earmark your tax dollars to sponsor government-funded religion.

This ill-advised constitutional amendment would allow the Florida government to fund religious proselytizing activities, and to show preference for one religion over another. And, it would permit government-funded charitable organizations run by religious groups to discriminate in who they serve.

The Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission is scheduled to vote on this tomorrow (Wednesday), and they need to hear from you. Here's what you can do, right now, to submit your comment AGAINST amending the Florida Constitution to allow government funding of religious activities:

1. Go to: http://www.floridatbrc.org/comments.php

2. Copy and paste the following text into the comments section (feel free to edit these comments as you see fit or write your own).

Dear Members of the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission:

 

As a concerned Florida citizen, I am writing today to strongly urge you to VOTE NO on CP0020, a proposal that will allow the State to use my tax dollars to bankroll government-funded religion.

Government-funded religion only ensures religious discrimination, strife and controversy. Voting for this proposal will remove the prohibition in the Florida Constitution that, for 140 years, has prevented government from favoring one religious group over another by funding it This will chip away at my and all Floridians’ basic constitutional rights to practice religion and be free from government-sponsored and funded proselytizing.

We deserve “government-free” religion. This is a dangerous proposal with far-reaching implications for many Floridians. Government funded religion squelches religious liberty, a core American value. I urge you not to allow religious discrimination to be enshrined in Florida’s Constitution.

Thank you for taking action to protect the separation of church and state.

Sincerely,

Howard Simon
Executive Director
ACLU of Florida

 

Help the Defense of Civil Liberties!

Comments

[omnifarious.livejournal.com]

In some styles (such as the one I read my friends page in) the text of the message to cut&paste shows up as black on black.

[joreth]

That's annoying, I'll look at it

[dayo.livejournal.com]

Yep, showed black on black for me to. That is really fracked up. I envy you your weather but the politics, not so much. Then again we have Daley...he's democrat machine but at least he supports civil rights for all.