Thursday, February 16, 2012

In Tennessee: House panel votes for the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill


Tennessee State House voted to advance the “Don’t Say Gay” bill yesterday. Why this is going anywhere, I don't know.
The legislation limits all sexually related instruction to “natural human reproduction science” in kindergarten through the eighth grades, and cleared its first hurdle in the state House on a voice vote of the House Education subcommittee.

The panel accepted the version of the bill that passed the state Senate late in last year’s session.
During the hearing, Rep. Bill Dunn (R-Knoxville) stated the amended version of the bill is in line with current curriculum and is consistent with what is already written in Title 49 of the Tennessee Code Annotated. 

Rep. Craig Fitzhugh (D-Ripley), was the only member of the subcommittee to speak against the measure, calling it “a solution in search of a problem.”
It's mess, pure and simple. I hope the LGBT community raise some Hell over this.

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1 comment:

Writer said...

It's a shame and oh so laughable! They're gonna have to move Dollywood!

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