Extremist anti-gay bill 'Don't Say Gay' debated in Tennessee today

[BirminghamExaminer]

Excerpt:

The 'Don't Say Gay' bill was introduced by State Representative Stacey Campfield and would ban public elementary and middle school teachers from providing information about any form of gender identity or sexual orientation other than heterosexuality. The bill, according to the HRC is "an attempt to control what teachers and schools teach."

The bill could have far reaching consequences. It could make it unlawful for school libraries to circulate or possess any book that has any reference whatsoever to gender that doesn't meet the criteria for heterosexuality. One has to wonder if a book containing the line, "...the queer little man lived in a queer little house on a queer little street...." would be removed from school library shelves around the state.

Teachers would be breaking the law if they accidentally used the term gay or lesbian. The bill conjures up a number of imaginative questions. If a student asked a question concerning one of the taboo terms, would the teacher be required by law to lie to the student?

Representative Stacey Campfield is infamous in Tennessee and an embarrassment to that state. He is perhaps best known for introducing a bill aimed at letting fathers off the hook for child support payments if DNA testing establishes that the father is not the biological father. In the following video, you will see Campfield get 'dressed' down by retiring Representative Bob Briley (D).

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Or perhaps he is best known for introducing a bill that would require death certificates for aborted fetuses.

For further information on this craziness, please go here.

[LynzM]

1. What the hell?

Seriously? I don't even know what to say to this. This is ABSURD.

[Fearless]

2. I'm more worried about GSA's than books to be honest.

:wtf:

[pipi_k]

3. But...but....but!!!! What about...

The War on Christmas????


What will happen when the kids find out they can't sing certain songs in the Christmas Pageant...


No more... "Have yourself a merry little Christmas... Make the Yuletide gay..."

and forget

"Deck the Halls"
The line "Don we now our gay apparel" will be stricken from the song!!!


Will schools have to throw out all their music books because of the reference to Christmas gayness?


Will they have to skip certain parts of history...like "The Gay (18)90s"???


What about WWII? Will the kids be taught that "Enola Homosexual" dropped the first nuclear bomb on Japan?








buncha fuckwads.
Their brains are leaking out their asses

[livefreest]

5. oh man this is hilarious

[BirminghamExaminer]

11. Best quote ever:

What about WWII? Will the kids be taught that "Enola Homosexual" dropped the first nuclear bomb on Japan?

[livefreest]

4. HURRY! HURRY! HURRY! come see merchants of hate

in Tennessee continue spreading their gall.

[tomm2thumbs]

6. Ted Haggard & State Representative Stacey Campfield should pray on it a bit longer

Me thinks State Representative Stacey Campfield doth protest too much

[BirminghamExaminer]

7. Very astute point...

And this IS the guy who wants death certificates for aborted fetuses. I think he ought to be impeached for mental instability.

[Politicalboi]

8. His first name says it all

Stacey. How sweet. Boy or a girl? LOL! What a loon.

[marmar]

9. Unbelievable......What a backward-ass rube.

I've really had it with the Idiot Agenda.

[burning rain]

10. No more reruns of "The Flintstones" in Tennessee, I guess.

Remember the theme song: "We'll have a gay old time"... and Barney and Fred were awfully chummy.

[Fearless]

12. Don't even get me started on Bert and Ernie!

:+

[Two Americas]

13. hey BirminghamExaminer!

Glad to see you are still around. PM me when you have an interesting topic going so I don't miss it, of you think of it.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

[evilkumquat]

14. Okay, Maybe I'm Missing Something Here...

Yeah, banning discussing homosexuality in school and denying civil unions is bigoted and hateful and the guy is a complete tool.

But how is protecting fathers from the financial burden of children they didn't create a bad idea?

People rail about deadbeat dads, etc., but if a woman cheated on her husband, got pregnant and lied about it, why should the husband have to be punished simply because he was married at the time to a faithless woman?

In the video, Briley was complaining that the bill was the most "anti-child" he had ever seen. Why does the child's welfare supersede that of a guy who had nothing to do with it?

I'm all about parental responsibility. I'm also an adopted child and adopted my own, so it isn't about letting people off the hook.

It's about what is fair.

This same situation almost happened to me once. My second wife cheated on me and got pregnant. I had to get a DNA test to prove I wasn't the father because in my state, it is the law that a husband is legally assumed to accept the financial burden of any child from his wife during the marriage unless it can be proved not to be his... but the judges in custody battles AREN'T LEGALLY REQUIRED TO ACCEPT A PATERNITY TEST. So in theory, if a judge sees the biological father is a completely worthless pile of shit who would not be able to meet the financial needs of his child, the judge could "in the best interests of the child" rule that the man married to the cheating wife be responsible for child support!

I see a parallel in the abortion debate.

A woman's body is her own, but opponents argue that the fetus' right to life is being trumped by the mother's rights not to carry it to term.

In this situation, most of us on DU would argue that the mother's rights supersede the fetus.

So why in the situation of a husband being forced to pay for another man's child, it is okay to supersede the husband's rights "in the best interest of the child"...?