Florida’s progressive clergy took back the microphone from Governor Ron DeSantis, and hateful forces that attack Black, Brown, LGBTQ+ communities. Led by the Repairers of the Breach, the Florida Council of Churches, the League of Women’s Voters, the National Action Network, the Florida African Methodist Episcopal Churches, and others, marched on September 16 a short distance from Bethel Baptist Church to Jacksonville City Hall. It was a hot partly cloudy Saturday. A day earlier, these religious leaders delivered to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a letter demanding he cease and desist from spewing racist rhetoric that creates an environment of racial hatred and violent attacks upon Black, Brown, and marginalized communities. […]