Also in Murfreesboro-
It is a very fucked up place.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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“After prayerful thought and talking with my family, I have decided not to run for re-election..."
WTF, why do these people always blame God when they get caught? God wasn't responsible for your own shady shit, and he's not responsible for you cuttin'-and-runnin'.
Morgan Freeman: "But there was no prayer in her thought..."
Yeah it’s famously fucked up
Cripes. Wtf Murfreesboroites?
These are the religious fanatics attempting to overthrow democracy.
Big, tough, strong, straight men too afraid to see other men kiss or hold hands. These men are weak. Gay men are much more manlier.
I mean, if you think about it, gay men are so manly that they are literally into men as men. It's like double man.
It doesn't get manlier than that. Literally twice the men.
Tennessee needs this law because without it all the men there go gay.
There's no hate like christian love.
A bit redundant to say "archaic" and "Tennessee" isn't it?
Depends on the city. Chattanooga has amazing municipal internet, for instance.
Obscenity law needs to be eliminated entirely at this point. It's archaic entirely. Luckily, convicting under the Miller test is rare since pretty much everything has "serious artistic or political value", but these laws shouldn't be on the books at all. Needless violation of the first amendment to punish victimless crimes.
The christofascist Lemmy user PepeLivesMatter is gonna be sad
They're still doing the Pepe thing? They do know Pepe's creator hates them and killed Pepe in his comic, right?
How embarrassing and stupid of them.
Forechin doesn't care though
Honest to gawd I read that as "foreskin" and did a double-take.
Obviously I haven't had enough caffeine today.
What's the difference honestly lmao
Yep. Seems to have been banned though. Yay!
Cowards.
Christianity going to Christian
Wasn't this whole thing debunked as an obscure definition that was never enforced, and was changed weeks before a story about it ever made headlines?
Earlier this month, following a legal challenge from the ACLU of Tennessee, the government of Murfreesboro removed “homosexuality” from the list
Yep.
I'm cancelling my monthly donation to the guardian lmao. Ragebaiting like some fox news opinion piece.
Part of the authoritarian playbook is selective enforcement.
So it's still scary, even if it never got used.
In June, the city council of Murfreesboro enacted an ordinance outlawing “indecent exposure, public indecency, lewd behavior, nudity or sexual conduct”. The rule did not explicitly mention homosexuality, but LGBTQ+ people in the town quickly realized that the ordinance references 21-72 of the city code, which categorizes homosexuality as an act of indecent sexual conduct.
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Earlier this month, following a legal challenge from the ACLU of Tennessee, the government of Murfreesboro removed “homosexuality” from the list of acts defined as “public indecency” by the city code. The small victory came after officials repeatedly refused to issue permits for the BoroPride Festival, citing the new ordinance.
So the city was using the ordinance to shut down a pride festival based on the new ordinance's reference to 21-72 of the city code until the ACLU got involved and they backed down rather than pay for lawyers to fight a battle they knew they couldn't win in the courts.
Murfreesboro made public homosexuality illegal and was enforcing it until the ACLU slapped them around. How is that "debunked"? You don't think it's newsworthy that a city government outlawed public homosexuality just because they rescinded it when challenged?
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Isn’t this a blatant violation of the Laurence ruling?
I feel like would be a great town to fuck in the park at midnight. Just more exciting because you could get a small ticket for it.
Uncertain if it'll be a small ticket from a police officer. I'm more confident it'll be a burning cross and a noose from a group of white hooded individuals. There's a history.
Maybe a small bullet (or ten) from the cop. :/
Ten small warning shots to the back of the head.
True, but as long as they aren’t wearing their hoods they are probably the ones most likely to be engaging in the behaviors they so publicly despise.
You reap what you sow Tennessee
I'm sure this won't be a popular opinion, but how is this surprising? Gay marriage was voted down at the state level many times all across the country. Those voters are still out there and 5 supreme court justices didn't change their opinions on homosexuality.
True, but also some of those voters have changed their minds. I wouldn’t be surprised if my red state would overturn our constitutional ban on gay marriage if Obergefell were struck down, and Obergefell was against our state.
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Was anyone persecuted for this?
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