So, FL makes up some Jesus licenses...I find this promotion of myth obscene..I think breasts are the fount of life...can I get a licenses plate with a breast in the center please?

Please...if we have to exposed to propaganda everywhere...why let's make the playing field even.

I want tits and toy trains on my plates!

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TALLAHASSEE — If you want Jesus on your license plate, the Florida Senate is looking out for you.

Because why worry about a budget impasse or property insurance when you can spend more than an hour talking about Jesus, the devil and license plates?

Religious specialty plates offered by Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Valrico, and Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, made it onto a bill Friday even though many members had not seen images of those plates and none was produced for the debate.

Siplin didn't mince words when asked what his "Trinity" plate looks like, saying, "It has a picture of my Lord and savior Jesus Christ." It, along with a "Preserving the Past" plate offered by Siplin, would benefit the Toomey Foundation for the Natural Sciences.

Storms' "I Believe" plate would benefit Faith in Teaching, an Orlando company that funds faith-based programs at schools. Its design features a cross over a stained-glass window.

Several members had concerns about approving plates they had not seen. And one questioned using religious symbols at all.

"The issue is whether the state of Florida ought to be producing license plates with religious images on them," said Sen. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, "and I don't believe that we should."

Before the day was over, the Anti-Defamation League and the ACLU registered opposition and across the hall in the House, proposals for the same plates were withdrawn from legislation.

Florida has more than 100 specialty plates, with several new ones proposed this year.

Coming Monday: A push to eliminate all specialty plates within two years in favor of specialty stickers sold for use on standard Florida license plates. It's the idea of Sen. Victor Crist, R-Tampa, who said it will save the state money, generate more revenue for charities and most important, help "law enforcement clearly and swiftly identify a Florida license plate."

"What this does is it lets automobile owners have choice 1 and 2, both options, and to generate more money for the charities involved," Crist said. "It's a win-win situation."

Crist doesn't have a prototype of his idea, but said there would be two spots on each plate for maybe 2-inch-by-2-inch stickers, in the bottom right and left corners.

So, if you are a University of Florida graduate who loves manatees, you can support both on your tag. Crist, who will offer the amendment Monday, said the senators he has talked to really like the idea.

But those options would come too late for Friday's debate in the Senate, where Sen. Larcenia Bullard, D-Miami, invoked the devil to make her point: "What if someone comes next year and decides to vote on something that has the devil on it, and horns, horns on each side. I know that people are called the devil, but if the symbol of a devil is on it, I would not vote for that."

After a not-so-simple vote (two voice votes, a voided roll call vote, two quorum calls and finally one that counted), the amendment with Siplin's tags was adopted 22-13. Storms' tag passed on a voice vote.

For his part, Siplin said FAMU has a snake on its plate and the University of Miami has "a duck or something on their license plate so I think we should have an opportunity for every citizen around the state to be able to purchase a license plate of their choice."

Siplin wasn't bothered by the opposition, saying, "If you don't like that particular license plate, you're not forced to buy it."
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/article995257.ece

I'm sure Jesus is not down with this...

tits and toy trains...I bet I could rally the populace

Pix please

Pic's of tits and toy trains?

Ummm I had this great toy train set but...I lost it...all those moves and all those acts of God...

I am sure the pix of your uh, um are awesome!
I meant of the license plates.

this is the tag that passed the senate.

wow

we also have

There is already a precedent for the "In God We Trust" being on the currency, I can't agree with the other one at all.
A line has been crossed with that.

Maybe they should go with the Buddy Jesus?

Lynann - I can see your tag causing a traffic jam no one would want to pass you just to stare at your tag

I think this new tag, is just to stir up more controversy because who in their right mind.

Someone in Florida has a sense of humor it seems.

TALLAHASSEE -- Fighting a Republican move to approve religiously oriented specialty license tags, and bitter about proposed salary cuts for state workers, Senate Democratic Leader Al Lawson has a specialty tag idea of his own.

Worried about the separation of church and state, Democratic critics are incensed about one proposed tag that would feature an image of Christ on the cross.

Lawson's amendment to SB 2326 is called, "Can A Brotha Get a Break License Plate."

"The plate must prominently display an image of state Senator Alfred 'Al' Lawson, Jr. The phrase 'Can a Brotha Get a Break?' shall appear in bold letters on the bottom of the plate."

Proceeds from the plate would go to, "Employees Relief Fund for the purpose of offsetting salary and benefit cuts by the Legislature and providing grief counseling."

The amendment doesn't mention that Lawson is running for Congress next year.

if you get thousands of people to order them then you will have them

after all it is all about the money

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/04/28/a1b_bino_0429.html

Plates for proselytizing

Why continue to play along with that nonsense? A much simpler approach would be to encourage every religion to turn the Florida license plate into its own rolling proselytizing billboard.

I can envision a "Jews are Cool" license plate, with a Star of David on it, and the words "Chosen People" in the design. And the Muslims ought to be able to state their claim as Florida's one true religion. Those misunderstood Wiccans would get their covens a shot at state-sponsored advertising. And let's not leave out the Pastafarians and their Flying Spaghetti Monster.

If the Florida license plate is a canvas for one religion, it should be a canvas for all. Or none. We're going to have to accommodate the atheists, too.

I drive too fast to care whats on someones license plate.

I can't wait until I get mine.I hope I get stuck in a long traffic jam and a liberal Aethist has to look at my license plate for miles and miles.



It seems to me the harder the liberals and Aethist try to take Christianity out of the government the more they are getting put back in.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

I can't wait until I get mine.I hope I get stuck in a long traffic jam and a liberal Aethist has to look at my license plate for miles and miles.



It seems to me the harder the liberals and Aethist try to take Christianity out of the government the more they are getting put back in.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

i could be stuck behind you and wouldnt pay an ounce of attn to your license plate...thats what nintendo ds's are for.

Wow is right.

I sure liked the oranges better.

my roommate is religious, he is protestant..even he thinks the license plate thing is pushing it.