LGBT News "Don't Say Gay!"

This is actually a little old but still an annoying bill.

 

Wow Tennessee is putting Gay rights back 20 years, not surprising really as Tennessee is famous for the Scopes Monkey Trial, when they put a school teacher on trial for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to pupils

 

Every time this kind of thing pops up in parliament and government I feel a little part of my soul die. If we were truly as evolved as we think we are surely we could see past such ignorance and just realize that everyone out there- black, white, gay, straight, asexual, pansexual, bisexual, transsexual, intersex etc-are all just human. We all smile when were happy, cry when were sad and every one of us bleeds red.
Honestly though, they would stoop so low as outing? Really?
It's despicable that the piece quoted above that was even considered.

 

Ho-lee shite. Calling parents to notify of possible gayness? Are they trying to annihilate people's lives? This is emotional abuse.

 

To paraphrase the intentions behind this poor excuse of a bill:

"DEM GAYS R GONNA SPREAD DA GAY TO ALL R CHILDURREN"

 

As for calling the parents, note that according this all the school needs is to "think" someone is gay. That's just wonderful. There must be plenty of kids who are 100% straight who get labeled gay. Some of them might end up in "camp" in the coming years.

Another thread talks about gay hostile countries. I commented there that it was a list of places I think I'll avoid (or something like that). I'm now thinking of adding Tennessee to that list....

 

I'd just like to point out how amusing it is that a Republican (aka, a member of the Christian right) says that 'feelings/emotion do not control the actions of a mentally healthy adult human being'. Now, forgive me if I'm wrong, but last I checked, religions, especially Christian based ones, are all about what 'feels right' or 'the Spirit testifies to them that this is the right thing through a burning feeling in the bosom' (also known as indigestion or heartburn). So, to see that quote amused me to no end. Nice to hear the bill died, though.

 

George Takei vs. Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" Bill - YouTube

 

I am so TAKEI! Thanks for that video! And yeah this bill is just one of many extremist things that senator is trying to get press with...no way it would pass. He also wanted to give death certificates to all women who have an abortion performed.

He is a joke...maybe if we ignore him he will go away.

 

if feelings do not control the behavior of mentally healthy adults, then he would never have been granted a marriage license, becuase he is mentally ill.

 

I can't wait when we reach the point where it seems as racist as ignoring someone who is black.

 

Who makes the decision to elect these kinds of people?

 

Similar people, unfortunately.

 

And yet people ask me why I feel compelled to remain in the closet in my school district. My students were working on projects related to the Bill of Rights and one student was researching gay marriage and gay adoption. She even interviewed teachers that had no problem telling her that it was wrong for homosexuals to adopt. It was a great research project and I was impressed. I was also equally appalled by some of my colleagues and the things they were quoted as saying.

I was sharing this project with my assistant principal prior to her coming to observe my teaching and she told me that I needed to get parent permission to discuss these topics in class. I work in a public school in the North East where it is illegal to discriminate against LGBT people. This assistant principal also said that I should tell this girl's mother what she is working on because "she might be gay." Of course, I never followed up on any of those "suggestions."

The ignorance never ceases to amaze me. It's no wonder I stay in the closet at work.