Until there are some kind of real penalties for submitting unconstitutional legislation, we will not be able to stop these clowns from abusing our state legislatures.
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Lawsuit time. BRB, gotta go donate to TST.
Is there a market to bet on the outcomes of lawsuits? Because we have a winner.
Honestly I feel like Desantis wins either way, he loves defunding his own government over vain attempts to oppress minorities.
Ron DeSantis now judges what a religion is or isn't?
In the article he says "Satan has no place in our schools" but what is Christianity without Satan?
I don’t believe Christianity is a real religion. Do I get to ban it from my business?
My deeply held belief is that their is not now nor has their ever been any God in this reality, can churches please be removed from any street I drive down?
I'm cool with them having buildings, they just have to pay taxes to fund those roads because their LARPing doesn't have any backing to justify the exemption.
Imo if you pass a clearly unconstitutional law you should maybe be liable for some of the court costs.
I think you mean all
The ultimate arbiter of constitutionality is the Supreme Court. Given the current court, are you sure that's what you want?
DeSantis conveniently didn't mention Mosque leaders as teaching the kids. I wonder why that was. Does Florida not recognize Islam as a religion? Or did he just not want to point out that was a possibility...
Does Florida not recognize Islam as a religion?
This is, unironically, an argument American conservatives are making
Or did he just not want to point out that was a possibility…
There's two prongs to this kind of assault. The "we're just opening the door to religion in schools" angle uses liberal egalitarianism to shoe horn in reactionary ideology. Then the "they're too dangerous to let near your kids" angle is used to pry rival ideologies away.
What you end up with is a singular "safe" educational platform that just happens to be Ron's favorite flavor of white supremacy, with any other belief categorized as a form of subversive or derogatory hate speech.
This is a textbook example of the "establishment of religion" prohibited by the First Amendment.
It's ironic because denying that Satan has followers would be considered blasphemy in many Christian denominations.
Florida loves dumping tax money into Miami law offices.
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the obvious federal legal rodeo they’re creating.
Sorry FloridaMan. Hey, at least you still have huge stockpiles of hydroxychloriquine! Mmmmm-mm! Good stuff.
the TST is technically a religious institute so uh. Good luck have fun.
I think the COS also is but fuck the COS the COS can eat dick.
If you’re not the proper government mandated religion, you’re not welcome in Florida.
Oooook, that's legit not something Florida can rule on. Its in direct violation of their own state constitution.
SECTION 3. Religious freedom.—There shall be no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting or penalizing the free exercise thereof. Religious freedom shall not justify practices inconsistent with public morals, peace or safety. No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.
If belief in God is a religion the belief in their adversary ie. Satan must also be a religion. Ie. Either both are religions or neither are.
Notably there's more evidence that by Floridas definition that Christianity isn't a religion given its support of violent prostilyzing, child rape, and incest.
What about the Church of the Subgenius, the Discordians, and the Pastafarians?
What about the God-Biscuit?
Leftists: try and get these jobs and teach kids liberation theology, bonus points for smuggling Marxist critique into sermons
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