{"id":4839,"date":"2012-02-14T11:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2012-02-14T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T20:09:06","slug":"school-prayer-bill-passes-another-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/14\/school-prayer-bill-passes-another-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"School Prayer Bill Passes Another Hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4846\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 240px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Florida students may soon be able to pray at public schools.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2305707623_454d99c70b.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4846\" title=\"2305707623_454d99c70b\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2305707623_454d99c70b-300x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2305707623_454d99c70b-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2305707623_454d99c70b-220x275.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/2305707623_454d99c70b.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Thee Erin \/ flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida students may soon be able to pray at public schools.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>School plays and football games could soon start with a student-led prayer or inspirational message, if a bill making its way through the legislature becomes law.<\/p>\n<p>But some lawmakers are concerned about giving students an open forum at school events.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters see the bill as a way to allow student-led prayers at school events. They say they want students to inspire classmates.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Charles Van Zant of Palatka said he doesn\u2019t believe students will push religious views on classmates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill is not intended to advance or to endorse any religion or belief,&#8221; Van Zant said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But Rep. Marty Kiar of Davie worries students might use the chance for unwelcome viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could allow a student to come in and advocate for drug use. Because those are messages,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Anti Defamation League says the bill is unconstitutional and includes elementary school events.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was approved by House committee Monday and must still go before the full House. The Senate has already passed the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to allow student-led prayers would be up to school districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School plays and football games could soon start with a student-led prayer or inspirational message, if a bill making its way through the legislature becomes law. But some lawmakers are concerned about giving students an open forum at school events. Supporters see the bill as a way to allow student-led prayers at school events. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,1],"tags":[1028,280],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}