Parents or legal guardians of students who receive such counseling shall be notified as soon as practicable that such counseling has occurred.
That thar is the language Tenn. State Senator Campfield would have mad law – to inform parents if the students ask a question about homosexuality. Campfield is clearly ignorant of science and human sexuality, but of course, he knows how to write laws.
Good job, Tennessee.
I detest using the Hitler fallacy, but when you employ the Government to report the specifics of a group, you are running really close to having to have it used. I mean the Hitler fallacy.
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- TENNESSEE: New Version Of “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Includes Outing Students (joemygod.blogspot.com)
- Tennessee ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Now Requires Teachers To Inform Parents If Their Child Is Gay (thinkprogress.org)
- Tenn.’s ‘Just Say Gay’ Back and It Could Out Students to Their Parents (advocate.com)
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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According to a new study that showed that openly gay men in Montreal had better mental health than closeted gay men and even heterosexuals in the same study, it encouraged similar gay men to come out of the closet to experience health benefits. But it warned that the time around coming out is actually when a gay person is most likely to commit suicide. That was proven in another study(ies). That was in the news right before the info about this new bill came out in the news, so it was fresh on my mind when I read about this. So when the Tenn. Senator Campfield said it was because homosexuality has health dangers and made it seem like this addition was in the best interest of the child, I knew exactly how wrong he was. If this bill is passed into law and a single gay teen is outed to his parents before he is ready, and the child kills himself, I wonder if he will even care about the blood that would be on his hands. This bill takes away a valuable resource of a gay teen: the school counselor. Not only that, but the gay teen who is rejected by his parents is probably the most likely type of teen to himself and can only lead to an increase in teen suicide or teen homelessness, since a large proportion of homeless teens are LGBT.