New anti-gay bill in Tennessee

[Yu Dum]

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/24698365/sen-kelsey-introduces-turn-the-gays-away-bill

Tennessee isn't known for being the most homosexual friendly state, but this is just downright absurd. This bill, if put into effect, will give businesses the right to turn away gay and lesbian customers for simply being gay and because of the businesses religious views.

[shark tits]

i didn't watch it but stores already 'reserve the right to refuse service' to anyone. i've had it used against me for bein a bum. fuck em, if they don't want your kind go elsewheres. not to say segregation was a good thing cause black schools were way underfunded [you know, as opposed to today] but according to some stuff i've read, black societies flourished. instead of going to a korean grocer or arab bodega everything was black owned in black areas. maybe ghettos can be a good thing insofar as people have mutual self interest.

[Yu Dum]

I know that stores reserve the right to deny anyone service, but this is giving them a bigger advantage, in my opinion, to discriminate even further.

[Jared]

They don't ship a lot of dictionaries to Tennessee do they? Discrimination? ever heard of it?

[Yu Dum]

Unfortunately, the vast majority of Tennesseans are pretty ignorant.

[Jared]

Ignorance is taught, it's not an intrinsic value. When the backwoods views and opinions of an area are so ingrained in everything they do, it's highly unlikely they'll change. Bummer.

[silkyjohnson]

Stupid hicks, it's seriously embarrassing that this kind of bill is even being taken seriously.

[Yu Dum]

Oh, I agree. Ignorance breeds ignorance, I'm afraid.
This bill makes me ashamed to even lay claim to being from Tennessee.

[Dr Steve Brule]

This is so disappointing

[sexualhelon]

'Murica. If you don't like it - or if you're gay and living in Tennessee - then you can geeeeeet out. Apparently.

[Beer Keg Peg Leg]

sleazy bout to come in here to tell you guys to stop being so fucking pc

[GAY]

It's kind-of interesting because I've arrived at a point where I'm grateful for stuff like this...it shines light on the cause. People can't say, "Oh calm down nobody is putting you down for being gay" when these things exist. I mean, Rusty will but everybody else doesn't.

[Shredsledder]

well yeah that's because rusty is a goddamn maniac.

Ignorance is taught, it's not an intrinsic value. When the backwoods views and opinions of an area are so ingrained in everything they do, it's highly unlikely they'll change. Bummer.

I think the word prejudice fits better than ignorance in this bit. but it doesn't really matter we all know what yer sayin

if people were totally ignorant of prejudice it would be tight! if we were similarly ignorant of all things down to taste/touch/smell/thought that'd be even better!

"Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in"

lol 50 AD phil dick is a madman

[MOE SYZLAK]

yeah i'm pretty ashamed of TN for this. we just approved a bill to allow same sex partners to share insurance policies not too long ago. one step forward, two steps back.

[Morty Seinfeld]

this is really saddening. seriously just as ignorant as making black people sit at the back of the bus, eat at different restaurants, etc.



I just don't understand anymore.

[chuck d]

[Sleazy]

that's totally fucked and absurd but how could they enforce it?

sleazy bout to come in here to tell you guys to stop being so fucking pc

nope, but I am looking forward with to the daily show coverage

[Yu Dum]

that's totally fucked and absurd but how could they enforce it?

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sleazy bout to come in here to tell you guys to stop being so fucking pc

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nope, but I am looking forward with to the daily show coverage

I'm not entirely sure how they'll enforce it. All I know is that this bill gives businesses the right to do this based on the businesses religious standing.

[pinche gringo]

So much for being advanced and compassionate beings. This type of shit is always cloaked in religion. Can anyone actually quote anywhere in the Old or New Testament where it says specifically that being homosexual is wrong? (That's an honest question and I want what verse that shit is too) I guess that isn't the point really because people pick and choose what parts of the bible fit their worldview and run with it. So good luck if you don't fit into the dominant world view of western culture, which so conveniently presents itself as the oppressed.

[Exposure]

So much for being advanced and compassionate beings. This type of shit is always cloaked in religion. Can anyone actually quote anywhere in the Old or New Testament where it says specifically that being homosexual is wrong? (That's an honest question and I want what verse that shit is too) I guess that isn't the point really because people pick and choose what parts of the bible fit their worldview and run with it. So good luck if you don't fit into the dominant world view of western culture, which so conveniently presents itself as the oppressed.

Somewhere in that mess of bullshit the bible says it's ok to stone gay people to death

[Rusty_Berrings]

Expected this to be about decriminalizing weed from the title

[sleepypancakes]

Well fuck Tennessee then.

[doomstation55]

So much for being advanced and compassionate beings. This type of shit is always cloaked in religion. Can anyone actually quote anywhere in the Old or New Testament where it says specifically that being homosexual is wrong? (That's an honest question and I want what verse that shit is too) I guess that isn't the point really because people pick and choose what parts of the bible fit their worldview and run with it. So good luck if you don't fit into the dominant world view of western culture, which so conveniently presents itself as the oppressed.

Well it's in the Old Testament in the book Leviticus, I'm paraphrasing but its like, "A Man shall not lay with another man as he does a woman for it is an abomination."

And yes it's complete bullshit that they take something like that so literally when there is so much hypocrisy in those Christians lives.

2:55 sums it up well

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"It would have to protect the religious ideals of those who support same sex marriage and those who oppose same sex marriage," Sen. Kelsey said.

This is fucked, but trying to justify it because of "Reigious Ideals" makes it even worse.  Fuck your make believe bigoted religon.
That's like justifying the Talibans behaviour due to religious ideals.

The sooner we get rid of religon the better. Don't christen your kids, don't send em to religious schools, we don't need a moral compas.

Sorry but this makes my blood boil.

[perverted super otaku!]

Wait, how do they know who is gay? just if they look gay or if you show up with another dude?. I doubt even the dukes of hazard could get a tuna sandwich then!, yet the big, bearded, beer bellied dude eatin up ur grits may very likely be flogging twinks in his spare time. This shit is dumb as fuck!

[L33Tg33k]

If I fuck a trap does that make me gay or desperate?

[Morty Seinfeld]

If I fuck a trap does that make me gay or desperate?

it makes you ignorant for using that word.

[L33Tg33k]

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it makes you ignorant for using that word.

Really now? One, I don't know since when trap was a derogative term. It describes a man that purposely tries to look like a woman with the express purpose of tricking his audience, i.e. trapping them. It is not a synonym for trans. Two, take a joke you loser.

[GAY]

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If I fuck a trap does that make me gay or desperate?

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it makes you ignorant for using that word.

[close]

Really now? One, I don't know since when trap was a derogative term. It describes a man that purposely tries to look like a woman with the express purpose of tricking his audience, i.e. trapping them. It is not a synonym for trans. Two, take a joke you loser.

I never knew this. Look at you guys, educatin' the queer 'round these parts. Seriously...I've never heard that term that I can remember.

[Jared]

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If I fuck a trap does that make me gay or desperate?

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it makes you ignorant for using that word.

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Really now? One, I don't know since when trap was a derogative term. It describes a man that purposely tries to look like a woman with the express purpose of tricking his audience, i.e. trapping them. It is not a synonym for trans. Two, take a joke you loser.

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I never knew this. Look at you guys, educatin' the queer 'round these parts. Seriously...I've never heard that term that I can remember.

I feel like this is just a term made up by the porn industry for those "straight guy gets tricked" videos.