ACLU Will Challenge Florida License Plate With Cross…Of Course
Posted on April 24, 2008
Of course anyone could see this coming from a mile away. The ACLU oppose license plates that say “pro life”! Did Florida really think they could get away with putting an expression of faith on a license plate for people to purchase? Why, that is just another step in the march to tear down the wall of seperation of church and state that the ACLU have worked so hard to build from their imagination. Crosses are the most offensive thing on the ACLU’s list of offensive things! There is no way the ACLU will not challenge this without equal production of license plates expressing Buddist, Wiccan, Satanist, Islamic, and every other religion in existence.
MIAMI (AP) - Florida drivers can order more than 100 specialty license plates celebrating everything from manatees to the Miami Heat, but one now under consideration would be the first in the nation to explicitly promote a specific religion.
The Florida Legislature is considering a specialty plate with a design that includes a Christian cross, a stained-glass window and the words “I Believe.”
Rep. Edward Bullard, the plate’s sponsor, said people who “believe in their college or university” or “believe in their football team” already have license plates they can buy. The new design is a chance for others to put a tag on their cars with “something they believe in,” he said.
If the plate is approved, Florida would become the first state to have a license plate featuring a religious symbol that’s not part of a college logo. Approval would almost certainly face a court challenge.
The problem with the state manufacturing the plate is that it “sends a message that Florida is essentially a Christian state” and, second, gives the “appearance that the state is endorsing a particular religious preference,” said Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.”
No moron, it signifies that if a Christian wants a personalized license plate that celebrates their freedom to express their religion they can. Yes that means whatever religion a person wants on their plate would work as well.
Florida already has other personalize license plates that signify religious belief, such as “Choose Life”. The same plate in Tennessee was challeged by the ACLU back in 2005, but an appeals court overruled.
As a Christian and a Florida I would love to purchase this plate, and if the ACLU wants to sue to stop it perhaps Christian Floridians should ban together to file suit against the ACLU citing a violation of our right to freely express our religion!
Hey MacRanger! I’m a Florida resident as well. If you wanna head this up, you can add my name to the list.
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Does Florida have some kind of law prohibiting the State from a free exercise of religion? From my reading of the United States Constitution, Florida could prohibit anyone that is not Baptist from living in their state. But, that is because I can comprehend what I read, much unlike a bunch of ACLU attorneys.
Why do you need a cross on your license plate. If you’re really that concerned you can find a million different ways to decorate your car that do not involve gov’t items like a license plate.
It’s the right of the person to have what ever they want put on there license plate. The ACLU should just BUTT OUT!
As i posted before and will keep doing so.
The ACLU is nothing more but organized crime and should be shut down and kicked out of the United States for terrorists activity with in the organization. Just as G.E. still does trade with Iran.
In most states, a Christian vanity plate would be a total nonissue since vanity plate designs are available to any organization which requests one and meets a minimum order size. In Florida, however, vanity plate designs must be individually authorized by the State legislature. Permitting the Christian license plate would amount to a formal endorsement of Christianity by the State of Florida, and as such would be a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
This is underscored by the fact that the the plate’s sponsor — Representative Edward Bullard — outright stated that he would oppose giving any other religion an equivalent vanity plate because he “isn’t sure all groups should be able to express their preference”.
Rep. Edward Bullard, have you lost your mind? Florida’s congress has lost touch with reality enough, and then you come up with this? What is the matter with you?