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Amendment weakening church-state separation inches closer to Florida ballot listen

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Tags: Kevin Ambler, Adam Fetterman, vouchers, amendment, Florida Supreme Court, Florida Constitution, church and state

Today the state House and Senate moved a step closer to including an amendment to November’s ballot to repeal a ban on state funds to religious institutions.

House and Senate committees approved the proposed state constitutional amendment. Republican Rep. Kevin Ambler from Tampa supports it.

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Activist discusses possible anti-gay amendment

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Tags: Gay Marriage, Barry Lynn, Amendment

Rev. Barry Lynn, a reverend in the United Church of Christ and longtime advocate of the separation of church and state spoke Saturday in Tampa about the possible amendment banning gay marriage in the state of Florida. Lynn is also the executive director of Americans United, a non-sectarian, non-partisan group devoted to the separation of church and state. He says this is really a campaign to make some Floridians invisible.

Lynn is a television and radio regular, having many of his own pro...