Tennessee, protecting kids from the evil gays
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Now I wish I had come across this sooner, as the news about it came out on the 21st of last month, but I had to mention it as it is a real threat to sanity. Tennessee, that ever so progressive state, has passed a bill from a committee to the state senate floor that would make it illegal to mention homosexuality in any way in schools before the ninth grade.
This bill is one that has been fought for by Republicans for the last six years. Created by Senator Stacey Campfield, and known as the “Don’t say gay” bill, it states that:
“No public elementary or middle school shall provide any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.”
Because we all know, if you just ignore something you don’t like (or make it illegal) it will go away. Have a kid who is coming to terms with their sexuality? To bad, you better hide it because Tennessee doesn’t want to hear about it or help you. This is the kind of idiocy created by people who honestly think sexual orientation is a choice and roving bands of homosexuals are out to corrupt their children.
This is not the first bit of nuttery from Campfield. Previously, he made an attempt to pass a bill that would require death certificates to be given for aborted fetuses. He was also behind attempts to force women getting an abortion to look at ultrasound images, eliminate the state’s pre-kindergarten program and also make it legal to carry a firearm onto a college campus. Yet he still has quite a bit of support from many Republicans, which just shows how bat-shit insane they really are.
Upon hearing this, George Takei made a comment on his twitter once again proving his brilliant wit:
TN bill will prevent teachers from using the word “gay” in class. In response, I’m lending them my name: “It’s okay to be Takei.”
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I appreciate what you are all saying but in England sex education has been around for a long time but it is now beginning at the age of five with references to homosexuality. Many people in Britain think it is too young. Some organisation is giving children who ask for it drugs to delay the onset of puberty so that they can make up their minds about being male or female. Again many people feel that this is all going against nature and turns homosexuality into a lifestyle choice and not a natural event.
I would be pleased to learn what Americans think.
So even if a teacher says ‘I’m gay’ and means they’re happy they’re in trouble?
I’m starting to think that the divide between republicans and democrats is one between advocacy of self-hatred, and advocacy of acceptance. The population is diverse, and I wish we could move beyond the Right’s delusional efforts to suppress that fact, and move on to figuring out how to “all get along.” I think that makes me more of an optimistic realist than a radical left-winger, but I’m sure there are republicans who would see it differently.
WHERE do these people come from? Whoever keeps turning over the rocks, stop it, leave these creatures where they belong!
I think Campfield must be a closet “something” I am betting he has a dirty little secret.
I don’t think it is so much people are looking under rocks to find them, but the other critters living there just couldn’t stand the crazy any longer and kicked them out from under it.
Great commentary–thanks, Chris!
Glad you found it interesting, thanks for the comment.