Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse wants to "take back the rainbow." The Florida Christian Family Coalition is taking back the words "equality", "human rights" and "social justice":
Today, the Christian Family Coalition, (CFC), Florida's tireless human rights and social justice organization announced its legislative priorities for the upcoming 2012 statewide legislative session in Tallahassee.
"During the 2012 statewide legislative session our priorities include restoring religious equality in our schools and women's rights.
Currently, children of faith in Florida are not allowed to express their beliefs in school during non-compulsory events, at a time where all forms of public expression are tolerated and even celebrated, religious speech should be no exception, this form of discrimination is not acceptable.
This is a bipartisan issue and a matter of basic fairness for all children of faith, that is why we applaud Democratic State Senator Gary Siplin and Republican State Representative Charles Van Zant for courageously filing Senate Bill 98 and House Bill 317, respectively, to restore religious equality in our schools."
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We must stand up for religious liberty. NOM I hope with our success in Florida you also remember states like Arizona where they almost passed a marriage amendment defending traditional marriage. We should push for it again.
There are no children without 'faith'. All children are children of 'faith'. Once we accept NObama's dichotomy in terms of 'people of faith', it leaves the rest as 'people of no faith' - and that's an absurdity. Please, find another term, like 'Biblical faith'.
Agreed, Little man, though I'd make a distinction between trust and faith, though they are often used interchangeably. I'd say children trust adult influence, more than have faith in it. Trust in supposed adul omniscience, in the case of religion, leads to 'faith' in a god or a religion.
Nope. Trust is faith. In philosophical terms, faith is trust. Many trusts form a philosophy. You trust your intellect. Does it mean you don't have faith in your intellect? In order to reason, we have to adopt a supernatural trust, which is faith. The 1st amendment is famous for keeping government from making laws which would establish one or any form of religion. But there's more to the 1st amendment: no law can be made abridging the freedom of speech (which it does), or the right to peacefully assemble (even Communists or Gays, whatever) or complaining to the government without fear of reprisal. In other words, protecting the free exercise of any kind of ideas that does not conflict with the Constitution - even ideas against the amendments to the Constitution. Pretty well spelled out, just in case some people would try to make a distinction between belief in a god, and belief in $, or power, or their political faith (i mean trust), as their god. So, you still think you have trust, but not faith
Nice try.