Florida Baptist Lobbyist Calls Regular Session 'Mixed Success'

The lobbyist for the Florida Baptist Convention viewed the state Legislatures recently completed regular session as offering "mixed success."

Florida Baptist Convention lobbyist Bill Bunkley, president of the Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, listed stopping casinos and passing religious liberty legislation as highlights, while being disappointed in legislation failing to ban Internet gambling cafes and to pass pro-life legislation, according to the Florida Baptist Witness.

The high points of the session included holding off a huge gambling expansion plan, securing an important religious liberty victory, combating human trafficking, and [establishing] an important drug abuse task force, Bunkley told Florida Baptist Witness.

Disappointments during the session included the failure to stop illegal local gambling activities and failure to move forward on some key abortion issues.

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