The efforts of the Central Florida Freethought Community and the Brevard Atheists and Space Coast Humanist community have prevailed again over the county. now to see what the County Commissioners will do!
“The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today unanimously ruled that the Brevard County, Fla., Commissioners’ policy of using religious beliefs to determine who can offer invocations at public meetings is unconstitutional, discriminatory and a violation of religious freedom.” They did however refuse to decide if constitutionally the county can exclude non-theistic invocations given by non-theists. We shall see what the future holds and enjoy this win for now.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.That matter was resolved by the Supreme Court. They can't discriminate and often, when communities finally realize that they drop all invocations from even being said. This is as it should be.
JackPedigo
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July 9, 2019
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This type of thing should never have to go to court. Considering how many times that you yanks swear allegiance to that aging piece of paper. You would think that you might know what it says?
273kelvin
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July 9, 2019
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No one is pledging allegiance to the Constitution.
THAT'S the problem.
For a lot of people, they look at the Constitution like believers look at their "holy" books.
They cherry-pick which parts they'll follow, and ignore the rest.
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