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Crossposted from Stop The ACLU

Via Miami Herald

The recently passed Florida law that essentially bans state academic travel to Cuba promised to escalate into a constitutional battle when Gov. Jeb Bush signed it into law last month.

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The American Civil Liberties Union, representing several professors from state universities, filed a lawsuit against Florida officials in federal court, claiming the travel ban is unconstitutional. The group also demands a temporary injunction to prevent the law from taking effect while the case is in court.

”This act is terribly misdirected,” Randall Marshall, legal director of the ACLU of Florida, said of the new law. “This is unconstitutional, and we hope to have this law struck down very shortly.”

The Florida Masochist has the right question:

Tell me Mr. Marshall where it says in the constitution that taxpayer money must be used to support travel? Anywhere in the world? I’ll await your reply but I doubt I’ll get one.

The new law prohibits spending state money on any aspect of organizing a trip to any of the five nations on the U.S. State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.

Other plaintiffs named in the suit include the faculty senate of FIU; Jose Alvarez, professor emeritus at the University of Florida; Carmen Diana Deere, director and professor at the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies; Houman Sadri, associate professor at the University of Central Florida; and Noel Smith, curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art at the University of South Florida.

The academics worry that the travel ban will discourage top students who have an interest in studying Cuba or other countries on the list from remaining at Florida schools.

This law is a very responsible move on the part of the state. The argument that it will discourage study in these countries and therefore diminish our security is crazy. We are at war despite the attitudes of some to recognize it. Why in the world should the state use its funds to put Americans in harms way where they could be taken hostage and a myriad of other terrible things done to them?

I will repeat my opinion from when the ACLU first announced their opposition to the law.

This law is straight up common sense, and if the ACLU were truly concerned for the security of Americans they would be applauding it. The law does not prevent anyone from actually travelling to these countries, it only prohibits taxpayer funds from paying for it. If professors and students want to travel to these dangerous countries they can do it at their own risk, and their own dime. Perhaps the ACLU are disappointed that the taxpayer will not be paying their fare to visit their clients? If so, Iím sure they have plenty enough duped supporters that would gladly donate.

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Pleading his case before his peers that he is not an abomination and that he should not be barred from office even for the sake of unity with the Anglicans.

The first openly gay Episcopal bishop told a church hearing Wednesday that he is “not an abomination,” as he pleaded with the denomination not to bar gays from the office of bishop, even temporarily, for the sake of Anglican unity.

If Episcopalians “see Christ in the faithful lives of our gay and lesbian members,” they should have the courage to say so, no matter the potential consequences, said Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

“I am not an abomination before God,” he told the Episcopal General Convention. “Please, I beg you, let’s say our prayers and stand up for right.”

This argument sounds vaguely familiar. Me think he doth protest too much. What does it matter to me what those outside the ‘church’ do? But those that claim to be inside the church are bound by word of God. But much like the Constitution, the liberals don’t mind twisting them to their own ends.

The convention will soon vote whether to meet demands from Anglican leaders to impose a moratorium on electing gay bishops and express regret for the turmoil caused by Robinson’s 2003 consecration.

It would be most revealing this week if they vote to break with the Anglicans and promote the gay agenda. Its time to see whose side they really are on.

1Cor. 6:9-11 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

The words “that is what some of you were” has been replaced with “that is how some of you are”. Many have turned Christianity from listening to Jesus Christ to a religion. Sad but true.

Luke 9:35 ???This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.???

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HB 228 got its day in hearing. Perhaps the last day but a full room heard the testimony both pro and con.

Amid tears, hisses and prayers, a bill that would ban abortion in Ohio got its first and, legislative leaders say, last hearing on Tuesday.

The devastation of both legal and illegal abortions was exposed in the testimony. It also showed the intent of abortionists to complete the job once they get the word ‘go’.

Women who had illegal - and legal - abortions described horrendous pain and decades of trauma caused by their decisions, moving some people to tears in the audience.

Elizabeth Klein of Columbus, who is now opposed to abortion, said medical staff in Florida refused to let her change her mind as they vacuumed the fetus out of her cervix. Klein, who was accompanied at Tuesday’s hearing by her only child, blamed two subsequent miscarriages on the botched abortion.

If you think the fraud and negligence as seen from the money that was supposed to help Katrina ‘victims’ can you imagine how much worse it is with the butchering and tearing apart the small child. If that isn’t enough, then what about the harm done to the mother. What pictures could we paint if we only knew more about the truth of the abortion industry?

Here are some of those sections where the been has been the most active.

(E)(5) Whoever violates division (D)(B)(1), (2), or (4) of this section is
liable in to the pregnant woman, to the person who was the father of the fetus or embryo that was the subject of the abortion, and, if the pregnant woman was a minor at the time of the abortion, to her parents, guardian, or custodian for civil compensatory and exemplary damages.

(B)(1) No private hospital, private hospital
director, or governing board of a private hospital is required to shall permit an abortion.

(B)(2) No public hospital, public hospital director, or
governing board of a public hospital is required to shall permit an abortion.

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