Law Would Protect Bullying of LGBT Students

[Guest Kenna Dixon]

http://www.thegailygrind.com/2014/03/25/tennessee-passes-bill-allowing-bullying-lgbt-students-name-religious-freedom/

[VickySGV]

[Ravin]

Sounds like a good reason to homeschool.

[Guest Megan_Lynn]

what surprises me in the unanimous yes votes for such awful legislation. Am pretty sure this is unconstitutional.

[Guest LizMarie]

It is very likely unconstitutional but will get tied up in courts and cost money to undo such monumental bigoted stupidity.

[VickySGV]

Having been involved in a couple of fist fights over theological issues in the parking lot of my own church as a young teen, I think we will be able to find blood stains in new places. The two fights I got involved in were with members of my own church!! One of them was the Preacher's brat!! The term "Church Militant" took on a different meaning,

[Guest Kenna Dixon]

I'm very easy-going and self-controlled, but I'm finding in my old age that the turbo-Christians are getting me fired up. They don't affect me personally, but I really hate what they're doing to kids.

I would never argue matters of faith with anyone, but tactics are another matter.

I hope that just once before I die I have a chance to debate one of those Bible parrots face-to-face. Facts, knowledge and 72 years of personal experience versus opinion, misinformation and prejudice? I'll eviscerate him (or her).

[Ravin]

I admit I would encourage my children to play havoc with those rules. Just because.

[Guest Rose1993]

excuse my launguage, but WHAT THE <harsh swear word> IS THEIR PROBLEM!! ITS BAD ENOUGH IT IS LEGAL IN THE FIRST PLACE TO BULLY US, BUT TO ENCOURAGE it?!?!

Seriously, i want to see that governer dead, im sorry of how horrible a thing it is to say to wish anyone to be dead, but i really hope he dies ASAP, that is the absolute WORST thing i have ever read, and i feel extremely bad for all of the people that <sw> is hurting with that bill, him dying wouldnt solve anything, but it would be a GREAT start. NOBODY deserves to be specifically targeted for bullying, ESPECIALLY BY THE GOVERNMENT, WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT CITIZENS!!!!!! I honestly think there are going to be suicides because of this, and i do have my ways of getting peoples addresses, even politicians, so if one, ONE person dies because of that bill, you can bet that guy is getting a huge box of dog turds in the mail.

This SERIOUSLY pisses me off.

Edited March 28, 2014 by VickySGV
Rule 23 re swear word place holders

[Guest KimberlyF]

This is based on a law in Texas that's been in place since 2007. It meets or exceeds the U.S. Department of Educations Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools. It's the part that helps make it prob legal.

It's been covered by the AP:

http://www.wbir.com/story/news/2014/03/25/tn-senate-oks-religious-expression-bill-in-schools/6858557/

And the Huffpost:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/tennessee-religious-discrimination-bill_n_5030344.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

Neither of these news sources have a single mention of the word bully. But a bunch of LGBT blogs have is different interpretation of the bill. The bill was a response to a 10 yo not being allowed to use God as the person they admire most.

[Guest LizMarie]

The Tennessee American Civil Liberties Union is hardly an "LGBT blog".

[Guest KimberlyF]

The Tennessee American Civil Liberties Union is hardly an "LGBT blog".

You are correct. And from what I have seen, they have not mentioned bullying either.

[Drea]

It is always a telling when a political piece such as this doesn't even quote the smoking gun passages in the law supporting their assertion. It screams that the actual wording when read by the average person undercuts their assertion. The only excerpt I see regularly quoted is:

“a student may express beliefs about religion in homework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content of their submissions. A student would not be penalized or rewarded on account of the religious content of the student’s work.”

And from that somehow a student would then be entitled to answer a chemistry test about where water comes from could enter God. First under the wording of the law the student couldn't be penalized nor rewarded so how does this benefit the student? Second, pick real question that might realistically be on a chemistry test. The abstract question "where does water come from" leads to what is water, what is atoms, what created the universe, time for some philosophy. Maybe God is the correct answer. A real chemistry question would have detail about the reactions involved asking what chemical reaction results as water.

I say find some real news with some real facts.

[Guest KimberlyF]

It is always a telling when a political piece such as this doesn't even quote the smoking gun passages in the law supporting their assertion. It screams that the actual wording when read by the average person undercuts their assertion. The only excerpt I see regularly quoted is:a student may express beliefs about religion in homework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content of their submissions. A student would not be penalized or rewarded on account of the religious content of the students work.And from that somehow a student would then be entitled to answer a chemistry test about where water comes from could enter God. First under the wording of the law the student couldn't be penalized nor rewarded so how does this benefit the student? Second, pick real question that might realistically be on a chemistry test. The abstract question "where does water come from" leads to what is water, what is atoms, what created the universe, time for some philosophy. Maybe God is the correct answer. A real chemistry question would have detail about the reactions involved asking what chemical reaction results as water.I say find some real news with some real facts.

Yeah...the example there was a huge red flag for me too. By almost unanimous votes in both houses, which are about 25% Dems, they voted to put a bounty on the LGBT, AND allow the students to put God down as every answer. It seems to pass the basic sniff test to me!