Members DRW50 Posted May 21, 2011 Members Share Posted May 21, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReddFoxx Posted May 21, 2011 Members Share Posted May 21, 2011 Stacy Campfield, enough said. This is one reason why very conservative Republicans should never be in full control of a government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted May 21, 2011 Members Share Posted May 21, 2011 Tennessee and the 21st century isn't a good match. Fortuantely there's a futuristic visionary with an answer: Link to purchase merchandise: http://www.itsoktobetakei.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted May 21, 2011 Author Members Share Posted May 21, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted May 21, 2011 Members Share Posted May 21, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Titus Andronicus Posted May 22, 2011 Members Share Posted May 22, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted May 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted May 22, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Members Share Posted May 24, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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