http://www.thegailygrind.com/2014/03/25/tennessee-passes-bill-allowing-bullying-lgbt-students-name-religious-freedom/
This is ridiculous, and makes me physically ill.
Religious freedom is one thing, but this is messed up.
Well I think I'm now going to start beating up console peasants because they're idiots and their idiocy impacts my ability to preach the religion of the PC master race.
That is absolutely ridiculous. Lots of stuff keeps making me proud I live in 'Murica.
Beating up bullies, governors, and congressmen is a main part of my religion because they are immoral spawns with no regard for human life driven only by green and selfishness.
Also, twice a year I observe the holiday of light where I proceed to flip over cars and set them alight in military parking lots.
So, Where in Tennessee is the best place to move?
As a Christian, I find this ridiculous.
I used to be heavily Christian. Not the "in your face" type. Just believed a lot of the same things. Went to church five times a week. But shit like this pushed me away.
This bill is so... dystopian. Literally being popular lets only your beliefs be heard.
Training kids for Politics?
Hah.
I did not vote for any of these people.
Here is the bill.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/108/Bill/SB1793.pdf
Ensure that a student speaker does not engage in speech that
is obscene, vulgar, offensively lewd, indecent or promotes illegal drug
use; and
(4) State, in writing, orally, or both, that the student’s speech does
not reflect the endorsement, sponsorship, position, or expression of the
LEA.
They are dictating that a student speaker cannot speak a certain way, yet the students words does not reflect its sponsors. isn't this contradictory?
Articles IV and V are really redundant because they ensure protections that students will be allowed to pray if they choose. There really is not a religious discrimination problem in tennessee, and they have never needed a law to permit them to do anything in the first place.
I really cannot find any wording in it that says that they are allowed to do this kind of bullying. It could be vague enough that someone can misinterpret it as that though.
It's basically opening a floodgate.
A student can get up infront of the class, claim religion, and go on a rant about how homosexuality is wrong, and make derogatory remarks and whatnot.
Before, In school, if a kid called another kid "Fag" or something, that kid could be punished. Now, they can claim religion, and be free.
ahaha...reminds me of highschool. There was some sort of prayer group called "coffe something" can't remember exactly. They would circle around the flag pole and do their thing. When ever I walked by I would throw up the horns and yell "hail satan". I always heard a few hail satans in return. Santa is another fun one I like to use. What does this have to do with op? Well, people, myself included, will always act like an asshole. Nobody pays attention to laws until after they are passed. If you really care you need to pay more attention.
Serves you right California/Tennessee/D.C./Chicago/Florida/New York. You get what you vote for.
I constructed a pentagram outside the house of a local priest because he was openly against homosexuality.
You guys need laws that allow good evils.
Pentagrams are all well and good, but he could have still dinged you with trespassing. With that said, remember to heckle responsibly. This sounds like an echo of a thread I read earlier. Can't find it, random deletions, but was about being offended and how we should react. Or rather, why we shouldn't always be offended.
I wasn't trespassing though, I wasn't on his property. I suppose I should really have at least told him the reasoning but it was pretty damn apparent.
I would like to know exactly what parts of this bill allows for the persecution of gay people, since you all seemingly disaprove of some part or another of it, and that I couldn't find any particular extracts from the bill that were being specificly criticized against from that link.... I have trouble believing that everyone read the bill...
Dude, going to peoples houses and threatening or harassing them is not cool, even if you do disagree with them :'(.
You kind of mistook what I did. I constructed a wooden pentagram near his house. Left it there a few minutes then took the wood and cleared it away. Actively campaigning and teaching churchgoers to hate homosexuals is so much worse.
It's basically opening a floodgate.
A student can get up infront of the class, claim religion, and go on a rant about how homosexuality is wrong, and make derogatory remarks and whatnot.
Before, In school, if a kid called another kid "Fag" or something, that kid could be punished. Now, they can claim religion, and be free.
Don't take this the wrong, I am not saying gay people should be persecuted or anything, but I support both freedom of religion and freedom of speech. I can actually imagine people being persecuted for their religious beliefs, or any controversial belief for that matter, in government schools, after-all in my experience they are not a great bastion of free thinking.... Even university isn't that much better, extremely politically correct...
And as for someone saying they disagree with their beliefs, you get this all the time with say people saying republicans/democrats are bad people, or that people who earn 'too much money' are bad. And religious people get this same sort of treatment (being told they are bad people). Honoustly I don't see how this is any different..... And everyone is entitled to their own opinion aren't they, this sort of rhetoric is borderline though crime rhetoric, saying they can't have views about this or that.
I think it's just the way it's brought about in this.
Open religion everywhere is a good thing. Let people believe what they want.
But if you force kids to be in a closed off environment, where people are already being bullied and made fun of, you shouldnt allow things like religion to make it worse. You shouldn't be able to give kids an excuse to make fun of people even more, and not have any repercussions.
The whole "If you don't want to hear something from someone, then walk away and not listen" approach wont work anymore. Because it could be a speech, or a lecture, in class. That people would not be able to avoid.
I think that goes against freedom of religion, actually.
If i'm in school, getting lectured at about Catholicism, then that is going against MY religion, and stifling MY freedom.
Well, It's my religious belief that I can punch a mother fucker in the face for trying to force me to listen to their religious bullshit in a captive environment. Yet, somehow, I doubt that would be protected lol.