It’s a new year and a new decade. The future is racing forward. But lawmakers in Tennessee are hellbent on returning to the past.
The Tennessee state Senate kicked off its 2020 legislative session by passing its very first bill of the year: a new measure that grants religious adoption agencies the legal right to discriminate against same-sex couples.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Paul Rose, declares that licensed adoption agencies can deny eligible candidates from adopting if they “violate the agency’s written religious or moral convictions or policies” in any way.
Not only that, but the bill protects adoption agencies from being sued for discriminating against would-be parents on the basis of religion.
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Oh, and on top of that, it also declares that the state can’t deny an agency’s license or grant application for public funds because of it refuses to place children in need in loving homes based on religious objections.
The state House already passed the bill last April. This week, the state Senate passed it by a margin of 20-6. It will now make its way to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk for his official stamp of approval.
When asked yesterday whether he supported the bill, Lee declined to comment; however, his office later said the governor plans on be signing it as soon as it reaches his desk.
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The thing that keeps my sanity is the knowledge that these abhorrent noxious smcubag “religious people” I’m going straight to the darkest corner Hell to burn in eternity when they burn out their vile mortal coils.
Jesus looks down upon these cretins with disgust.they would rather a child lingering in the foster care until they are 18 and thrown out into the streets then be adopted into a loving warm stable family.
the vast majority of gay couples don’t adopt bouncing white infants they adopt older kids and nobody else wants I have two friends that adopted a 12 year old kid named Angel. he had been in countless foster homes had been raped and abused and pimped out by straight “families” so many times he couldn’t control his bowel movements because in his subconscious forced him to not consider it part of his body because of all the pain and torture he suffered. His first year was beyond hell for them he continuously try to push them he tried to burn down the house he slashed the tires on their cars all in an effort to have them hate him because he felt ultimately they were going to throw him out anyway like every other couple that took him into their homes. he exploded in a fit of rage one night they both pinnned him down onto the floor and told him to stop and then he was never going to leave the house he was their son and no matter what they loved him. They finally broke through to him and he began sobbing and crying uncontrollably for hours.
Their entire life changed Angel became a good student served proudly in the military has a chest full of medals a wife and two beautiful children now and two loving proud Grandathers.
Yet these puddles of puke would rather this kid would have wound up in the system til he aged out at 18 most likely begin selling his butt to survive become an addict and probably dead by he 21…
he>me
I don’t think you know a thing about what you are spewing….. you are an insult to queer life.
Billysees
Your testimony is better and more meaningful than mine above.