Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods Culture Clash: Gays Confront Knuckle-Draggers at the Capitol
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:03 AM
The Tennessee Equality Project, which sticks up for gays and lesbians, defeated the same bill last year, generating 15,000 emails in opposition. Their best argument with our enlightened legislature isn't that it's hateful and stupid but that it carries an annual $4 million price tag--the taxpayer cost of continuing to tend to the roughly 400 children who are adopted each year by unmarried couples.
Gays and lesbians are meeting today with 16 senators and 32 representatives, including Rep. Stacey Campfield, the slum lording crusader against all things reasonable.
"It gives lawmakers the chance to get on the right side of history," says Chris Sanders, the Tennessee Equality Project's president. "There's a human impact to the legislation they're proposing. It's time to fight back."
On Liberadio(!) yesterday, Sanders joked, "We're hoping part of the stimulus can be used to redecorate the legislature, and that's really our secret agenda." From the interview:
Mancini: Aren't you afraid that by meeting with these senators they might turn you straight?
Sanders: I haven't noticed any of them are carrying amulets with that power.
O'Connell: Are you saying no legislator has ever told you to your face that you're an abomination?
Sanders: No, no legislator has.
O'Connell: Have you told any legislators that they're an abomination?
Listen to the whole interview.
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Not meeting with Sen Diane Black today as planned. She canceled the meeting with a group of her constituents saying it would be a "waste of time" and "she didn't see any point in it because we don't agree on any stance and has heard it all before."
You stay classy, Diane!
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