Don't Say Gay Is Back.....Again

Tennessee legislators are at it again.

Don't Say Gay.

It's back, and Tennessee’s elementary and middle school teachers might soon be told they cannot talk about homosexuality with their students next year. The hateful bill cleared the Tennessee House education committee on Tuesday.

Now, to be fair, there are some legislators, even some from the GOP, who question the need for Don't Say Gay, because, well, in typical backwoods Tennessee politics, it is already illegal to teach sex education in elementary and middle school.

Homophobe Hensley

While Chairmen of the House Education Committee, Republican Richard Montgomery, voted against the bill, it passed out of committee by an 8-7 vote. The bill's sponsor, alleged homophobe, and Republican, Joey Hensley, says the bill is needed because "outside groups"--the evil, and always unnamed "outside groups"--and some teachers will slip the word homosexual into conversation. He says, with an alleged straight face, that the bill serves as an accountability reminder: 

“I have two children--in the third- and fourth-grade--and don’t want them to be exposed to things I don’t agree with....Even though the state board disallows this now, I’m afraid it does happen, and sex education is talked about in a way that it is unacceptable.”

So, wait. Let me get this queer. Hensley doesn't really care about other children, he's doing this so his own children won't hear the word gay? Try this, Joey, home school your kids. And then you can indoctrinate your children with all the fear and loathing and hate you want.

Asshat.

Add to Crazy Joey Hensley, one more Republican, Joe Carr, who voted for Don't Say Gay, because he's said there is actual documentation that outside groups are entering classrooms at the invitation of principals and teachers and not staying within the curriculum guidelines.

But, um, Joe, where is that documentation, or did you study at the feet of Allen "The Democrats are Communists" West, and think that if you just say it, it makes it so?

If this bill becomes law, any school caught in violation may have state money withheld, and any teacher caught saying anything about homosexuality faces a $50 fine and up to 30 days in jail.

For saying 'gay'.

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