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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 3:43:06 GMT
- IN GOD WE TRUST
State legislators in Florida came together on Wednesday — the same day student activists gathered outside the House chamber in Tallahassee to demand stricter gun laws, one week after the school massacre in Parkland — to pass a measure related to schools, but not guns. HB 839 would require every public school in Florida to display "in a conspicuous place" the state motto, "In God We Trust."
House members passed the legislation 97 to 10.
It is unclear what will happen in the Senate, where a bill using identical language was introduced last month.
The bill's sponsor in the House, Rep. Kimberly Daniels, a Democrat from Jacksonville who also runs a ministry, said the bill is "so simple, just saying put a poster up to remind our children of the foundation of this country."
"In God We Trust" is also the national motto.
On Wednesday, in a speech from the House floor, Daniels indirectly referred to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week that left 17 students and educators dead.
"It is not a secret that we have some gun issues that need to be addressed, but the real thing that needs to be addressed are issues of the heart," she said.
Daniels said she had a vision earlier in the week, "I believe it was God, and I heard a voice say, 'Do not politicize what has happened in Florida and do not make this a thing of division.' "
Daniels continued to speak about God: "He's not a Republican and he's not a Democrat. He's not black and he's not white. He is the light. And our schools need light in them like never before."
The bill would take effect July 1, 2018.
Passage came one day after lawmakers in the House failed to pass a motion advancing a bill to ban assault rifles.
www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/22/588002860/florida-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-schools-to-display-in-god-we-trust
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Post by goz on Feb 24, 2018 7:20:02 GMT
Five words:
'Separation of Church and State'.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Feb 24, 2018 15:35:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 16:45:09 GMT
Well that will accomplish something useful, I'm sure.
You have to love a national motto that's deliberately chosen to belittle and exclude a segment of the population. Because that's what mottos should really be all about. Divisiveness.
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Post by Vegas on Feb 24, 2018 21:05:51 GMT
Maybe shooters will be less likely to shoot up a school if the think that it's under protection by The Almighty.... I mean... How many shootings have there been a Catholic school?
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