The Tennessee Equality Project has announced a candlelight vigil to be held in memory of Phillip Parker, who died last week. His was the second suicide death in Middle Tennessee in less than two months.
(UPDATED) A staggering story of yet another Tennessee gay teenager committing suicide, this time from Smith County town of Gordonsville. Phillip Parker, a 14-year-old student at Gordonsville High School died this week. His parents said that he was “constantly bulled for being gay.”
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“A bigot is anyone who ACTIVELY works, campaign, or vote to strip the rights of another group of people, or to prevent rights from being added to that group of people.”
Discuss.
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The Tennessee House Education Subcommittee will consider the controversial asinine “Don’t Say Gay” bill today. More than 100 people are expected to express their silent protest by attending the subcommittee meeting while wearing purple.
I have a simple message for the representatives of the hate groups that protested the Southern Poverty Law Center today, demanding that the SPLC remove them from their hate group list: Get over it. You are hate groups.
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Has the Church truly become the Republican party at prayer, or are there signs that the nearly forty-year-old love affair between the GOP and Christian fundamentalists is finally showing cracks?
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Chattanooga State Representative Richard Floyd filed a bill this week that would have targeted the use of bathrooms by transgender people. The Senate version was withdrawn shortly after it was filed.
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One of the most hotly contested laws that was passed by the Tennessee legislature last year was a strict voter ID law that requires a voter to present a valid, state-issued photo ID in order to vote.
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Gay rights need straight talk
The gay rights movement has clearly become the civil rights struggle of today. Everything from employment rights to marriage equality is a part of this clash, and the battle lines have been drawn. It’s a wedge that tears apart families, churches, political parties, and even whole denominations.
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