11/2012  Update:  The Religious Freedom Amendment (Ballot item #8) failed to get the required 60% of the peoples votes.
08/18/12 Update: Added a link to an email by  religious Constitutionist attorney opposedto "FL's Religious Freedom Amendment" with rebuttal comments here: (2012-08-FL-ReligiousLibertyAmend.html ).  See also these slide shows: Separation Of Church and STATE TYRANNY Slide Show Parts 1, 2 and 3.    .
06/27/12  Update:  2012 FL Ballot initiative:  slightly modified to comply with SCOTUS.
 06/24/11  Update:  While Hisways has generated the methodology below for drafting an amendment, the FL legislature has submitted identical joint resolutions in both the 2010 and 2011 sessions for a Constitutional Amendment.  Here is a brief discussion from 2010 and SJR 1218 .  This "amendment to Section 3 of Article I of the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted to the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next" General Election.  The new text might look like this:
"ARTICLE I
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
SECTION 3. Religious freedom. - There shall be no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting or penalizing the free exercise thereof. Religious freedom shall not justify practices inconsistent with public morals, peace, or safety. Except to the extent required by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, neither the government nor any agent of the government may deny to any individual or entity the benefits of any program, funding, or other support on the basis of religious identity or belief. No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution."  [Previous strikethrough was Florida's Blaine Amendment.]

        
Subject:  Blaine Amendments And Hisways' PLAVNIC Christian Public School Resolution [PSOE 2006]
From: RE Klenk <staff AT hiswys.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:38:05 -0400
To: "Parents of Public School Kids." 

Howdy Folks;
     This month's eNewsletter is also this year's "Parents' State of Education Message" (PSOE 2006) which makes it somewhat more important than the usual monthly eNewletter.  It is primarily concerned about the Blaine Amendment text in the FL Constitution which the national, state and local judiciary uses to oppress religious expression in government schools; but, the 'message' also shows that it applies to the other Blaine Amendment text in the other 37 state constitutions.
       Our edited FL Blaine Amendment demonstrates the necessity for the legislature to address these educational, cultural and religious issues of the 21st century public school.  Our edit is pasted below but the whole article with substantial supporting documentation is in its own web page:  https://hisways.org/about/2006-Blaine-Amendment.html .   If the links below do not work please browse to the web page link above.
       You might also consider forwarding this to your friends and parents of public school kids and/or your state representative.

 
CURRENT  Florida State Constitution 
Blaine Amendment Language
Becket Fund References: [] Other /FL.html []   [] 37 OTHER STATES' BLAINE TEXT.html []
* Fla. Const. Art. 1, Section 3:   [] FL State Constitution - Online Reference: htttp://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/=Constitution&Submenu []
"There shall be no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting or penalizing the free exercise thereof.  Religious freedom shall not justify practices inconsistent with public morals, peace or safety.  No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution."
FINAL DRAFT
 The editing style used is the same that was used in the Jefferson link above.
* Fla. Const. Art. 1, Section 3:
"There shall be no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting or penalizing the free exercise thereof.  Religious freedom shall not justify practices inconsistent with public morals, peace or safety.  No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any secular or sectarian institution." except to parents for purchasing only, nondenominational public or denominational private, k-12 trinitarian education.
1ST DRAFT with COMMENTS, Florida State Constitution 
Blaine Amendment Language
All justification comments are in magenta- ed.
* Fla. Const. Art. 1, Section 3: 
"There shall be no law respecting the establishment of , executive or bureaucratic order(s) or judicial decree(s) establishinga religion or prohibiting or penalizing the free exercise thereof. 
Religious freedom shall not justify practices inconsistent with public morals, peace or safety. - [ The Islam Religion is incompatible and intolerant of peace and safety and violently oppress all other religions. This is why 'repeal' of the Amendments is not the right policy. ]
No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any
church, -[ 3.]' -[Judaeo - Christian, assembly]
sect,-[ 4.]` [Subset of any religion, foreign or national.]
or religious.[ 5.] .denomination.[ 6.] or in aid of any 
sectarian.[ 7.]` institution." -[ 8.]'[ heretical organization.] - or secular.[ 9.].school or religion.[ 10.] - [ Secularism is a religion of denial.]
except to parent(s) [of the USA's default religion] for education vouchers for purchasing only nondenominational, trinitarian k-12 schools.- [ Preferential treatment of the USA's default religion by government , over all other religions, is necessary to preserve our limited self-government ideals and constitutional republic structure.  Other religions cannot sustain principles such as: freedom for all religions, speech, the rule of law, truth, justice and "The American Way".]
Some of the supporting topics include:
Resulting Parental Choices:
The Basis of the Church's Position for editing the Blaine Amendment:
The Basis of the State's Position for editing the Blaine Amendment:
Comments on the Judiciaries "Establishment of Religion":
And
Addendum: Ohio, 6/28/06 ;  A quick edit of Ohio State's Blaine Amendment.CURRENT  Ohio State Constitution Blaine Amendment Language.  etc.


--
Sincerely,
RE Klenk,    A concerned grandparent of future(?) govt. school kids.
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+ Your church+community Values:
https://hisways.org/index.html"Introduction and Goals of Hisways USA, Inc." (Ministry to families in gov't schools.)
https://hisways.org/about/index.html"The Parents' State of Ed. Message." (Say Yes now!)
https://hisways.org/steward/Rel-Guid.htm"Religious Guide for P.School Parents" (Use it or Lose it.)
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       Please pray for the removal of the spiritual strongholds over our public school children, parents and teachers in our government education system, for the children's sake. 
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