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Showing Original Post only (View all)ARGH!! TN Senate Approves Bill To Warn Students That Hand-Holding Is A ‘Gateway Sexual Activity’ [View all]
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/13/463317/tennessee-anti-hand-holding/
Tennessee Senate Approves Bill To Warn Students That Hand-Holding Is A Gateway Sexual Activity
By Scott Keyes on Apr 13, 2012 at 8:30 am
Like any state legislature dealing with 8 percent unemployment and thousands of its residents facing disenfranchisement, the Tennessee Senate is targeting the menace of underage hand-holding.
Last week, the Senate passed SB 3310, a bill to update the states abstinence-based sex education curriculum to define holding hands and kissing as gateway sexual activities. Just one senator voted against the legislation; 28 voted in favor.
Since the bill specifically bans teachers from demonstrating gateway sexual activity, educators would be prohibited from even demonstrating what hand-holding is. Breaking these laws could result in a lawsuit, as Hunter from Daily Kos notes:
If your teacher teaches you anything about sex that isnt specifically on the approved curriculum, like demonstrating holding hands for the class instead of quietly tsking about the dangers it poses, they can be sued.
Still, this anti-hand-holding push may only be the second-worst bill passed in Tennessee this month. Nearly a century after the Volunteer State played host to the Scopes Monkey Trial, the legislature has now enacted a new law allowing educators to teach creationism alongside evolution.
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ARGH!! TN Senate Approves Bill To Warn Students That Hand-Holding Is A ‘Gateway Sexual Activity’ [View all]
babylonsister
Apr 2012
OP
Right-wingers believe they have nothing more serious to do than legislating about hand-holding
Cal33
Apr 2012
#20
"Don't forget, you're holding her hand and the hand of everyone with whom she's ever held hands."
Codeine
Apr 2012
#25
You know, we all make jokes about this, myself included, but if you think about it it really is sad.
drm604
Apr 2012
#41