New Louisiana "Don't Say Gay" bill would ban LGBTQ teachers from coming out

[Behind the Aegis]

Source: LGBTQ Nation

Republicans in the Louisiana House have used a rare procedure to revive a don’t Don’t Say Gay bill that had previously died after a bipartisan vote had stalled the bill in a House education committee.

The bill, H.B. 837, would prohibit kindergarten through eighth grade public school employees from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in general with students. The law would also prevent kindergarten through 12th grade employees from discussing their own sexual orientations and gender identities, something that would make it illegal for teachers to reference their own gender or marital status, although it’s unlikely that the bill will be enforced against cisgender or heterosexual teachers.

State Rep. Dodie Horton (R) sponsored the bill, but it failed to advance out of the House Education Committee last week. But this week, the state House voted to override the committee’s decision in order to give the state House a chance to vote on it.

The procedure, known as “Committee of the Whole,” was used to work around the state’s constitution, which requires a bill to be approved by a committee before moving on to the state House.

Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/new-louisiana-dont-say-gay-bill-ban-lgbtq-teachers-coming/

[LonePirate]

1. That's a massive First Amendment violation which I am sure the courts will allow to stand.

[GB_RN]

9. That's My Take, Too.

But the five, super regressives on the SCOTUS will probably rule otherwise. Same with the appeals court that Louisiana is in. I don’t trust either one of those courts to actually rule appropriately on ANY matter, even one as clear cut as this, when one of their pet boogeymen is involved.

[Hoyt]

2. Hope that bill will die again, but who knows nowadays.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[C Moon]

4. Republicans are like COVID...they won't away and they are slowly killing the USA.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

8. I'd rather have COVID than QOP

COVID is more pleasant and less deadly than the Republican Flu. I say that knowing COVID is no fun and not pleasant... But leave it to the QOP to find even worse ways to kill.

[cstanleytech]

5. Sounds like as law that would be thrown out by a fair and honest majority on SCOTUS

due to being a clear violation of the 1st Amendment.
To bad though that we no longer have a fair and honest majority in SCOTUS instead of the disgusting and dishonorable one that currently makes up the majority.

[Eugene]

6. A draconian bill that is only practical through selective enforcement.

This falls apart very easily in a hetero society, where the "traditional" family model is assumed.

In my school, Miss ______ would now be known as Mrs. G_____. Mrs. G_____ would later have a baby, taking maternity leave.

Of course, one can turn the clock back to when married women just stayed home.

[Roy Rolling]

7. It will be Vetoed

Louisiana has a fair, Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards.