Sounds like pretty clear voter intimidation to me. I bet if we follow it back far enough we get directly to DeSantis' office.
I went through an entire training for collecting signatures in AZ this year. I've never heard of a state sending police to verify signatures in any way shape or form. The various state laws around signatures on petitions are usually pretty clear. If there is a question at all about whether it follows the requirements, it's not counted.
This is why those petitions usually need 3-4x the minimum number of signatures to make sure it's actually on the ballot. States love invalidating signatures for the simplest things.
As soon as I hear any politician mention faith, I know for a fact whatever they're trying to do is bullshit and likely immoral. They default to faith when there is no real justification for whatever they're trying to push. They always try to claim that because of their faith, that it is inherently moral. As if everything is black and white and grey doesn't exist at all.
But not everything in their chosen book of faith actually applies to every situation, and some can just be ignored now. But never these sections and those ones aren't important. So this is black and white, but not other things they decide are related to their faith, those can be a grey area when they want them to be.