These two Brennan Center articles offer great information about the bill. The House has passed the bill. It’s up to the U.S. Senate now. Americans need to trust the election process. See links below that will assist you in writing your senators. This part would require all jurisdictions to use paper ballots that voters can …
From News Service Florida DOCTORS SEEK VETO OF ‘BILL OF RIGHTS’May 18, 2021 by NSF StaffSome of the state’s largest physician associations are asking Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto a bill (HB 241) that would put into law a “parents’ bill of rights.” The bill would enumerate rights of parents related to health care and …
A spokeswoman for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said now that Florida Education Commissioner Corcoran’s statement about Donofrio is out in the open, they need answers. The SPLC statement continued, “According to Corcoran, a classroom that teaches Black Lives Matter or what Corcoran has labeled ‘crazy liberal stuff’ justifies censorship and the firing of …
I don’t post many federal issues since I think most of you are signed up for national alerts. Please check out the resources tab if you’re not getting the national alerts. If you have a few minutes, please consider the below calls to action. In the years since the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was enacted …
This was copied from the May 2021 edition of the Freethinker Religious Miseducation at Public Expenseby Merrill Shapiro, Trustee and Immediate Past President, National Board of Trustees, Americans United for Separation of Church and State Our First Coast Freethought Society is an Internal Revenue Service Code Section 501 (c) 3 organization, so this column will not …
Excerpt from ACLU website:SB 90 will:*Force voters to submit vote-by-mail requests more often than is currently required, a completely unnecessary administrative hurdle.*Make it a crime for voters to ask a trusted friend or caregiver to pick up or drop off a vote-by-mail ballot, limiting voting access for elderly, working, and mobility-impaired Floridians who cannot retrieve …
The state legislature was able to pass all these horrible bills (see below) by April 30th but couldn’t bother to pass a bill (SB 772) that simply required the charter and voucher funded private schools to teach a course on tolerance, a course which is required by Florida Statute 1003.42 (2)(g) to be taught by …
This post is about these affirmations:We believe that scientific discovery and technology can contribute to the betterment of human life.We want to protect and enhance the earth, to preserve it for future generations Agenda for Tuesday’s city council meeting:https://jaxcityc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=858446&GUID=EFE82D25-853B-4B00-8CD0-5E0CCE8E3035&Options=&Search=One of the things on the agenda is the proposed gas tax increase. The funds will partially …
FFRF suggested comments for standards SS.7.C.1.12 (7th grade) and SS.912.C.1.5 (9th grade): “Judeo-Christian” is a contradiction in terms. Much of this benchmark is simply wrong. For instance, separation of powers is not a Judeo-Christian value, but came from Montesquieu. We know this because the Founders said so. The Ten Commandments did not influence our founding …
Possible email to send to your representative regarding SB 582 if you agree: Thank you Berman, Polsky, Thurston, and Jones for voting NO on SB 582 when it appeared in the Education committee March 23, 2021. I was sad to read that the Senate Education Committee passed SB 582 on March 23. This overbroad bill …