The infamous “Don’t Say Gay” (HB0229) bill cleared the Tennessee House Education Subcommittee yesterday after a voice vote. The bill was first championed by confirmed bachelor State Senator Stacey Campfield, who spent more than six years trying to get similar bills through the state legislature.
Campfield gained further notoriety when he embarrassed himself with bogus statistics while being interviewed by Sirius OutQ radio show host Michelangelo Signorile. He was also gloriously thrown out on his ass by a restauranteur in Knoxville.
How I wish I could have seen that.
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Since the Family Research Council was designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of their dishonesty and frequent dispensation of known falsehoods regarding LGBT Americans, it hasn’t slowed down the number of times they’ve been called upon for a “conservative” voice on TV debates. If anything, Tony Perkins, the president of the group, has been on TV news channel more often.
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As the court battles for the fate of California’s Proposition 8 come to a head with an imminent decision due from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals later today, several states are once again building referendum and voter campaigns to either ban or allow gay marriage. As you well know, Proposition 8 is the voter initiative that wrote anti-gay discrimination into the California constitution to ban gay marriage. Now, more states are working through various laws of their own, including New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, Maine, and of course, South Carolina — the only remaining Southern state that doesn’t have a gay marriage ban in their constitution.
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Note: this article was previously published May 21, 2011 on BusinessClarksville.com. It’s important to note that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill is up for consideration once again. The measure will go before the State House Education Subcommittee this week. The fact that Sen. Campfield is pushing the bill through despite the rash of suicides by gay teens lately, including young Phillip Parker, who was in the eighth grade — and would have been directly affected by this completely ludicrous bill if it became law.
I am republishing this post here so that my readers can know exactly why this bill is so dangerous, and so completely wrong for our state — or any state. Legislation based on bigotry has no business being considered. Ever.
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The Tennessee State Senate’s resident laughingstock has managed to keep himself in the limelight with recent commentaries over his asinine “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The infamous measure is currently on life support as the House decides whether to touch the controversial legislation.
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It’s a revelation as shocking as news that the sun will rise tomorrow morning: bigots misuse and distort statistics to make gays look as bad as humanly possible. Of course, we all know this. We’ve known this for years. What is surprising is that people who are in government allow themselves to be deceived or do the distorting themselves.
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As time passes, more details of the torture that Phillip Parker endured has emerged. Many of his teachers supported him, while some ignored the bullying out of hand. But now, we learn that he endured even greater verbal taunts from his own pastor.
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You just don’t like gay people.
It really is that simple. No matter how much you try to tell us how much you “love” homosexuals or the effort you take to convince us that you’re really acting in our best interest, we know the truth. You don’t like us. Not even a little bit.
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