Tennessee introduces bathroom bill, marriage equality ban
Source: LGBTQ Nation
By Alex Bollinger · Friday, February 10, 2017
Two bills to restrict the rights of LGBTQ people were introduced in the Tennessee legislature this week. One bill would state that Tennessees policy is to defend natural marriage; another requires students to use bathrooms associated with the gender on their birth certificates.
[link:http://wmot.org/post/gay-marriage-and-transgender-bathrooms-targeted-tenn-lawmakers-bills#stream/0One bill], labeled the Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act, says that the state of Tennessee will only recognize marriage between one man and one woman, and requires state agencies to ignore the Obergefell v. Hodges decision that outlawed discrimination against same-sex couples in marriage law. The bill allows the state legislature to hire counsel to defend the law in the case that the state attorney general decides not to litigate the case and attempt to have the Supreme Court overturn Obergefell.
The bill claims that the Supreme Court is not the final voice on state matters, and points to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the US Constitution for support.
The other bill, SB0771, requires public schools to require that a student use student restroom and locker room facilities that are assigned for use by persons of the same sex as the sex indicated on the students original birth certificate.
Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/02/tennessee-introduces-bathroom-bill-marriage-equality-ban/
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