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And we wonder why the incidents of LGBT teen suicides areso high. Tennessee 
State Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville; link is to his contact page), is behind a bill, SB49, that would prohibit teachers from discussing the topic of homosexuality with K-8th grade students. It’s known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Opponents contend that the bill would prohibit teachers from counseling students who may be struggling with homosexuality and preventing any type of bullying that is associated with it. They believe it could increase the suicide rate of gay teens.“The only people who are against it are those who have the goal of pushing that agenda on very young children, so I don’t think it’s controversial to say, ‘We’re not going to talk about it. We’re going to leave it to the families to decide,’” said Campfield.
On the bill specifics, it calls for the state’s Board of Education to
complete a study on whether homosexuality is being discussed in classrooms from kindergarten through 12th grade. After the study is completed, the bill declares, the “Board of Education shall adopt as part of its curriculum frameworks and standards for sex education the following: No public elementary or middle school shall provide any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.”
The Tennesee House can’t pass companion legislation until it receives approval by the House Education Subcommittee, which is now closed for the year.
More on Campfield’s extremism. He has sponsored legislation to, among other things:
issue death certificates for aborted fetuses, to force women to look at fetal ultrasound images before having an abortion; for the right to carry guns onto college campuses; to eliminate the state’s pre-kindergarten programs.
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Expect embarrassing outing in 3, 2…Ok. We have an outspoken anti-gay politician who is 43 years old, single, not physically unattractive and employed. His personal blog site, Camp4u, includes a recent post entitled “Who’s in, who’s out?”
Did I mention raging homophobe?
It doesn’t take a Freud to figure out what’s going on with this guy. The only question is when does the door blow off this jerk’s closet.
Camp4u? Really? Let the double entendres run wild!n/t
UnconstitutionalWhat would this law achieve except further cementing TN’s negative image?
As a dear friend pointed out to me,there is this book that would need to be banned with the passing of this bill. According to those who have read it and hold it to be holy, it has references to homosexuality in it.
The Bible.
The way SB49 is worded, it would censor the holy texts of at least 3 major religions.
I hope the law of unintended consequences bites them in their narrow religious a$$es.
Law books would also be banned, as well as the SCOTUS websiteotherwise, junior might learn that he is free to discriminate against gays in his scout troop thanks to a Supreme Court decision, etc etc.
And can enter a same-sex marriage in several states and the District of ColumbiaAnd any newspaper that covers a gay-related story will have to be permanently barred from every school library in the state.
Sick, sick, sick.
Y’know….He’s kinda foofy, with that ‘do. Makes me wonder if he’s desperately trying to not say “gay”….whne he looks in the mirror. /snark
Gayface?
Seriously!Do all homophobes lack a sense of the ironic?
someone set up a Facebook pageSomeone (not myself) set up a Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/…
I actually had the displeasure of seeing/hearing the guy in person when I took my mom to vote one year (he was outside the polling place), and yeah, he totally comes across as a closet case.
Consider history –This dude’s part of a movement that once decided to launch a campaign called “2M4M”.