On Tuesday, Tennessee’s State Senate gave its final approval to a bill permitting adoption agencies with specific “written religious or moral convictions or policies” to discriminate against LGBTQ couples applying as prospective parents. Tennessee’s governor, Bill Lee, is expected to sign the legislation into law.
several apparent attacks on the LGBTQ community, including a bill that would allow state mental health counselors to come up with their own “ethical code” that could permit them to reject” in addition to a so-called “bathroom bill” that would require trans studentsInterestingly, Tennessee’s Senate Republican speaker, Lt. Gov.
Randy McNally, voiced opposition to the bill, saying it could pose problems for the state’s Freedom of Religion Act further down the line. Several other Republican lawmakers had concerns, including one who worried Tennessee could face a boycott over the bill. It still passed, and now children at faith-based adoption agencies will be
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