http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/22/tennessee-dont-say-gay-bill-advances_n_852616.html

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/a41940cfb46d410dace929cd66f08164/TN-XGR--Anti-discrimination-Limits/

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2011/05/20/corporations-back-anti-gay-employment-measure-in-tennessee

The latter was heavily supported by Nissan, FedEx, AT&T, among others. I guess they want to be able to fire gays and not worry about any pushback. I wonder how many other states this will spread to.

Edited May 21, 201114 yr by CarlD2

Stacy Campfield, enough said. This is one reason why very conservative Republicans should never be in full control of a government.

Tennessee and the 21st century isn't a good match. Fortuantely there's a futuristic visionary with an answer:

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I have a lot of respect for George - many older gay actors just come out to sell a book, tell younger actors that you should be closeted, and then they go back to obscurity. George puts himself out there.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/22/tennessee-dont-say-gay-bill-advances_n_852616.html

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/a41940cfb46d410dace929cd66f08164/TN-XGR--Anti-discrimination-Limits/

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2011/05/20/corporations-back-anti-gay-employment-measure-in-tennessee

The latter was heavily supported by Nissan, FedEx, AT&T, among others. I guess they want to be able to fire gays and not worry about any pushback. I wonder how many other states this will spread to.

I haven't read any of the links, but let me guess...republicans are behind some hate filled law in podunk?

How christian of them.

The scary thing is that Tennessee is decently progressive compared to the rest of us down here.

They may have temporarily taken the lead in the hate laws, but give everyone else time.

The scary thing is that Tennessee is decently progressive compared to the rest of us down here.

They may have temporarily taken the lead in the hate laws, but give everyone else time.

Oh I definitely think this will spread to other states. People will shrug at bigotry as long as they think that it somehow lowers their taxes or that it only affects the "other."

What surprised and disgusted me is that major corporations lobbied for that ban on anti-discrimination law, which involved ads like this:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/21/977935/-Alcoa-Corp-Urges-TN-Governor:-%E2%80%9CVeto%C2%A0Anti-Gay-Law-HB600!%E2%80%9D?via=siderec

Unsurprisingly, Halsam signed the law banning cities from anti-gay discrimination ordinances. He signed almost as fast as he could. Most of the time you hear someone say that a Republican is "pro-business" and not focused on social matters, that just means they won't say the stuff out loud, but they have zero problem signing it into law. But then many Democratic governors would probably be the same these days.

But this type of thing is probably going to come up in quite a few states, along with sick ads like the one above.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110523/NEWS02/110523033/Haslam-reverses-Metro-s-anti-discrimination-law?odyssey=mod

Edited May 24, 201114 yr by CarlD2