Friday, June 13, 2008

Education And Civil Liberties Groups Assert That Tax Commission Overstepped Its Bounds In Attacking State Constitution

Americans United for Separation of Church and State has joined litigation in Florida designed to remove two ballot amendments that would erase religious freedom safeguards and harm public schools in the state.

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The amendments would permit voucher subsidies for religious and other private schools in Florida and eliminate the state constitution's language barring tax aid to religion. The result would be that houses of worship and religious schools would receive massive new streams of public funding. The measures were engineered onto the ballot through backdoor political maneuvering by former Gov. Jeb Bush, an ardent advocate of taxpayer aid to churches and church schools.

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