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Amendment 8 (Permit Public Funding of Religious Entities/Blaine Amendment Repeal)

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Office

Constitutional Amendment

Honorific

Constitutional Amendment - Abbr:

Type

General Election

Filing Deadline

June 01, 2012 - 12:00pm Central

Polls Open

November 06, 2012 - 06:00am Central

Polls Close

November 06, 2012 - 08:00pm Central

Term Start

January 01, 2013 - 12:00pm

Term End

January 20, 2999 - 12:00pm

Turnout

64.75% Registered 41.10% Total Population

Contributor

AndyRomagnano

Last Modified

AndyRomagnano December 07, 2021 11:39am

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Description

Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution providing that no individual or entity may be denied, on the basis of religious identity or belief, governmental benefits, funding, or other support, except as required by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and deleting the prohibition against using revenues from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.

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The measure moved to repeal the state's ban of public dollars for religious funding, also known as the "Blaine Amendment.

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Referred to in the Secretary of State's page as "Religious Freedom" but was actually about public funds going to religious entities for religious purposes and whether to permit this.

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