North Carolina, then Mississippi, now Tennessee pass anti lgbt laws

[drfuzzy]

What is in Tennessee anyway?

Some farms? Fields? ... Tornadoes?

Like seriously I'm surprised they even have therapists there, I didn't think there were any people.

 
Yes, we have farms, beautiful fields, terrible tornadoes, the most visited national park in the country those gorgeous Smoky Mountains, beautiful lakes that one can lock from one to the next from Knoxville.all the way to the Mississippi River. We have four large cities all which are thriving, our largest, Nashville,  home to country music and one of the leading music recording cities in the country. Memphis's fame, home of the " Blues", Elvis, BBQ, Mississippi River Front and ect. Knoxville, gate way to the Smokies, home of the Big Orange Tennessee Vols, often rated as a top ten place to live in the country,surrounded by several beautiful lakes of the TVA system, next door to Knoxville is Oakridge, it house's one of the top nuclear sights in the country with a fast growing tech. corridor. Our greatest asset, volunteers, we're ready and willing to anywhere to help people. Yes we have old Christian values, they've served us well and if certain business want the right to not serve the ltbgs in their communities then that's their right. This new law is for small number of business, the ltgb community as a whole is not discriminated against. I would never support discrimination against them and most people here do not but,what gives them the right to force pastors and churches to marry them when it goes against the long established doctrine of most churches. There are churches here that have no problem marrying them,so why should they chooses churches they know want marry them, they know the doctrine of let's say the SBC forbids it. They do not support the SBC, they've done nothing to build the SBC, yet many SBC's would accept them in as individuals. I personally would not attend a church that would not accept them as individuls, and I wouldn't attend a church that accepted them as couples. I'mnot going to argue this any futher, been through this on several other occasions, I know most of you will disagree with me, have all kinds of names for me and that's okay, I've expressed my opinion and it's your right to express yours so go ahead, just remember I did so without name calling.

GC

As Divinity said - it has absolutely no bearing on the churches.  The statute specifically states that religious organizations do not have to marry gay couples.  Gay marriage is a civil matter.  So all of the "protections of religious liberty" are simply trying to legalize discrimination and hatred.  If someone opens a bakery that specializes in wedding cakes, then by Federal law, they have to make wedding cakes for anyone that orders one.  If they don't like that, then they should specialize in something else.