What Florida's 'Don’t Say Gay' bill actually says

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Supporters and crics of the "Don't Say Gay" bill differ on whether would prevent the "stctn" or "discsn" of sexual orientatn or genr inty

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THE WHE HOE IS SPREADG VILE LI ABOUT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Whe Hoe Prs Secretary Jen Psaki cricized the Florida's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill and assured Print Bin would support muni after he had prevly voted for a siar bill while servg the Senate. * bill white gay *

”At a dner the uple hosted early this year their Chelsea apartment, Corey Johnson, a Democrat and the openly gay speaker of the New York Cy Council, beme irate when the uple suggted he meet Mr. Tmp has advanced an anti-gay agenda by cg his appotment of Richard Grenell, an openly gay man, as ambassador to Tmp’s falsehoods? Whe abptly rigned as print of the Intrepid, phed out, he said, after the state began an vtigatn to whether he had engaged unlicensed mercial was not charged wh any crime, but agreed to pay $1 ln rtutn to the state as a Whe, who said he had done no wrong, still wc when he speaks of the pilloryg that pair said their behavr was keepg wh a lifelong foc on missn over party, namely fightg for veterans and gay have supported a few Republins before Mr.

“Thanks to the dogged work of many of my lleagu, my grandchild will live a world that will rpect and honor their mothers’ marriage, ” Schumer said on the Senate floor the triumphant mood played out agast the backdrop of a right-wg backlash over genr issu, which has alarmed gay and transgenr people and their advot. ”“Racism, antisemism, homophobia, transphobia, they’re all nnected, ” Bin said.

”Among the atten were the owner of Club Q, a gay nightclub Colorado where five people were killed a shootg last month, and two survivors of the attack. Bin voted for the the time of Bin’s 2012 terview, gay marriage remaed ntroversial, but support had expand to roughly half of U. His admistratn clus the first out gay Cabet member, Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and the first transgenr person to receive Senate nfirmatn, Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Leve.

WHE HOE NMNS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

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Psaki said Print Bin is as horrified as she is about the legislatn, which Democrats ll the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Takg his cue, every idt Democrat, woke rporate and Hollywood celebry has malicly characterized the bill as “anti-gay. Florida Senate Democrats lked arms and marched around nonsensilly chantg, “Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay!

” Activist groups ran TV ads of celebri shoutg “Gay! Mark Hal, of Le Skywalker fame, tweeted the word “gay” dozens of tim. Thanks for rmg me of the plat om the German people- I had no tentn of vlatg the Network Enforcement Act & am relieved to learn that tweetg the word "gay" 69 tim wh a rabow emoji is NOT subject to removal unr the @Twter l or German law ❤️-mh — Mark Hal (@HalHimself) March 9, 2022.

BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY

No one is banned om sayg “gay. ” he barked at a reporter askg about “Don’t Say Gay” on Monday.

Last month, a Florida Hoe mtee passed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, which supporters say is about protectg parents’ abily to be charge of their children’s upbrgg, while crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay“ bill, argug that would prevent teachers om talkg about LGBTQ issu. Greg Abbott signed the bill to law later that Bin only recently spoke out about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, his admistratn has joed the legal fight agast anti-trans bills that beme law last year. WASHINGTON (AP) — Print Joe Bin signed gay marriage legislatn to law Tuday before a crowd of thoands, a ceremony that reflected growg acceptance of same-sex unns.

The triumphant mood played out agast the backdrop of a right-wg backlash over genr issu, which has alarmed gay and transgenr people and their advot. “Racism, antisemism, homophobia, transphobia, they’re all nnected, ” Bin said.

BILL WHE AND BRYAN EURE’S BIG, FAT GAY WEDDG

Among the atten were the owner of Club Q, a gay nightclub Colorado where five people were killed a shootg last month, and two survivors of the attack. Platiffs om lawsus that origally helped secure the natnwi right to gay marriage were also there. The new law is tend to safeguard gay marriag if the U.

In a ncurrg opn the se that overturned Roe, Jtice Clarence Thomas suggted revisg other cisns, cludg the legalizatn of gay marriage, generatg fear that more civil rights uld be imperiled by the urt’s nservative majory. Lawmakers crafted a promise that was tend to assuage nservative ncerns about relig liberty, such as ensurg church uld still refe to perform gay marriag. Tuday’s ceremony marks another chapter Bin’s legacy on gay rights.

CRICS OF FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW SAY WILL DAMAGE LGBTQ STUNTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS

Days later, Print Barack Obama announced that he also supported gay marriage.

By the time of Bin’s 2012 terview, gay marriage remaed ntroversial, but support had expand to roughly half of U. His admistratn clus the first openly gay Cabet member, Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and the first transgenr person to receive Senate nfirmatn, Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Leve. If there’s any doubt where Barbara Walters stands on the issue of gay marriage, she put to rt on Sunday eveng at the well-publicized weddg ceremony of Bill Whe and Bryan Eure at The Four Seasons rtrant.

BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL AT WHE HOE CEREMONY

“Y I do, ” she said, when asked if she thought gay marriage should be legal all 50 stat. “I thk this is perhaps the most important remag civil rights battle this untry has to face, ” Boi observed of the ongog polil and cultural stggle over gay marriage. Also on hand for the packed party were Karola Kurkova, Brian Atwood, Cy Council speaker Christe Qun — who said she first met Whe when he had a noise plat about the r bar unr his apartment — Joel Gray, Jack Rud, Jon and Lizzie Tisch, Gayle Kg, former New York ernor David Paterson and former New York Cy mayor David Dks.

""Folks, racism, antisemism, homophobia, transphobia are all nnected, " Bin ntued.

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

A Whe Hoe official said they planned to distribute memorative ems at Tuday's ceremony that voke Bin's remarks om 10 years ago announcg his support for gay Bin fished signg the law to cheers om the crowd, Lady Gaga's pro-LGBTQ song "Born This Way" began to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majory Lear Chuck Schumer arrive before Print Joe Bin speaks durg a bill signg ceremony for the Rpect for Marriage Act, Dec. Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay person elected to the Senate.

WHE HOE NMNS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AS 'DISCRIMATORY'

Hodg, the Supreme Court's lg 2015 that guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage; Judy Kasen-Wdsor, the widow of gay rights activist Edh Wdsor; Philip Hirschkop, a -unsel Lovg v.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

And that’s what people are fdg out is what all marriag, at their root, are about, whether they’re marriag of lbians or gay men or heterosexuals, " Bin said the “Meet the Prs” terview 2012.

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UTC</time></div><div class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Summer Concepcn</a></span> and <span class="byle-name">Mike Memoli</span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">Print Joe Bin signed <a href=" target="_blank">legislatn</a> Tuday to dify feral protectns for same-sex and terracial marriag a ceremony at the Whe Hoe.</p><p class="">Vice Print Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Bin and send gentleman Doug Emhoff also attend.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">"Today is a good day, a day Ameri tak a val step toward equaly, toward liberty and jtice, not jt for some, but for everyone," Bin said.</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src="></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="157468229511"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">'Marriage is a simple proposn': Bin signs same-sex marriage bill </a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Dec. 13, 2022</span><span>01:21</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject='Marriage is a simple proposn': Bin signs same-sex marriage bill & class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">Bin emphasized bipartisan support for the legislatn, passed by Congrs last week while llg for more to be done, cludg a renewed ph for a bill to prohib discrimatn based on sex, sexual orientatn or genr inty.</p><p class="">Bin also quoted directly om a <a href=" target="_blank">2012 terview on NBC News' "Meet the Prs"</a> which he me out public support of same-sex marriage ahead of then-Print Barack Obama. Bin's words om that terview were featured on a program for the event.</p><p class="">The legislatn Bin signed was drafted by a bipartisan group led by Sen. Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay person elected to the Senate. It will ensure that the feral ernment regniz marriag and guarantee full benefs “regardls of the uple’s sex, race, ethnicy, or natnal orig.” The law will not, however, require stat to issue marriage licens ntrary to state laws.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Print Joe Bin signs the Rpect for Marriage Act on the South Law of the Whe Hoe on Dec. 13, 2022." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Print Joe Bin signs the Rpect for Marriage Act on the South Lawn of the Whe Hoe on Tuday.</span><span class="ptn__source">Brendan Smialowski / AFP - Getty Imag</span></figptn></figure><p class="">The Hoe <a href=" target="_blank">voted</a> 258-169 to pass the Rpect for Marriage Act last week, sendg to the print. The <a href=" target="_blank">Senate</a> had already passed late last month by a vote of 61-36.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Democrats unanimoly voted to support the legislatn, while most Republins both chambers opposed .</p><p class="">Hundreds attend the bill signg on the South Lawn, cludg Sen. Kyrsten Sema, I-Ariz., her office nfirmed — an appearance wh Bin that jt days after she <a href=" target="_blank">left the Democratic Party</a> and registered as an pennt. Sema was a lead -sponsor of the bill, along wh Baldw and Republin Sens. San Colls of Mae, Thom Tillis of North Carola and Rob Portman of Oh. She helped broker a promise amendment about relig eedom protectns that secured GOP vot for the unrlyg legislatn.</p><sectn class="le-vio le-vio---body"><div class="le-vio__background"><div class="le-vio__player"><div class="vioPlayer styl_vioPlayer__bL8AJ styl_adNotPlayg__Q51_C styl_alignDktopBottom__4cHaO styl_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ" data-ttid="vio-player"><div class="vioSlate"><a href=" class="allowClicksOnPreview"><picture class=""><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet="><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet="><img loadg="lazy" src=" height="1080" width="1920"/></picture></a><div class="playButtonOuter absolute absolute-fill w100 dn-prt"><div class="absolute absolute-fill w100 df ems-center ems-center-m jtify-center jtify-center-m"><div class="play le-vio__play-button"><svg class="play--in" xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 15 15" prerveAspectRat="xMidYMid" style="max-width:30px"><path d="M0 0v15l15-7.41z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg></div></div></div></div><div id="156778565887"></div></div></div></div><div class="le-vio__"><h2 class="le-vio__tle"><a href=">The Rpect for Marriage Act pass Hoe, heads to Bin's sk</a></h2><span class="le-vio__tail"><span>Dec. 9, 2022</span><span>01:46</span></span><div class="styl_share__n3Syu le-vio__share dn-prt"><div class="styl_shareExpanr__hVk8d le-vio__share-expanr styl_hoverEffect___Dj4s"><span class="styl_shareDot__9pfRZ le-vio__share-dot"></span><svg class="styl_shareClose__6BZxR le-vio__share-close" viewBox="0 0 15 15"><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="0" y2="15"></le><le class="styl_shareLe__EJUjO" x1="0" x2="15" y1="15" y2="0"></le></svg></div><div class="styl_shareList___M8wC le-vio__share-list"><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-facebook styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href=" class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-twter styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=The Rpect for Marriage Act pass Hoe, heads to Bin's sk& class="styl_shareLk__gSGN3" target="_blank" rel="noopen noreferrer"><span class="in in-email styl_shareIn__lVnRm le-vio__share-in"></span></a></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">The amendment clud language sayg that relig anizatns would not be required to perform same-sex marriag and that the feral ernment would not be required to protect polygamo marriag.</p><p class="">A Whe Hoe official said other atten at the signg clud Matthew Hayn, a -owner of <a href=" target="_blank">Club Q</a>, the LGBTQ nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, where five people were killed last month, and shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson. Cyndi Lper, the sger and longtime advote for LGBTQ rights, performed the song “Te Colors.” </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">Other atten clud platiffs Obergefell v. Hodg, the Supreme Court's lg 2015 that guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage; Judy Kasen-Wdsor, the widow of gay rights activist Edh Wdsor; Philip Hirschkop, a -unsel Lovg v. Virgia, the landmark 1967 Supreme Court lg that protected terracial marriage; photographer Hunter Abrams; and Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shootg Orlando, Florida.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">The law after Democratic lears exprsed ncern that the Supreme Court uld follow s June cisn to overturn Roe v. Wa wh a lg to rcd the right of same-sex upl to marry. Democrats poted to Jtice Clarence Thomas’ <a href=" target="_blank">ncurrg opn</a> the Supreme Court’s lg on Roe, which he lled on the nservative-majory urt to also revis landmark cisns that legalized the right to ntraceptn and same-sex marriage.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">The Rpect for Marriage Act also as state legislators have proposed a rerd number of <a href=" target="_blank">bills that would lim the rights</a> of LGBTQ people recent years. And amid wispread anti-LGBTQ rhetoric led by right-wg nservativ and a strg of attacks on the muny, cludg the adly shootg at <a href=" target="_blank">Club Q</a>.</p><p class="">Bin signed the bill Tuday a after he me out public support of same-sex marriage, a change for Bin, who had <a href=" target="_blank">voted agast regnn of same-sex marriag</a> when he was a senator. </p><p class="">“The good news is that, as more and more Amerins bee to unrstand, what this is all about is a simple proposn: Who do you love? Who do you love, and will you be loyal to the person you love? And that’s what people are fdg out is what all marriag, at their root, are about, whether they’re marriag of lbians or gay men or heterosexuals," Bin said the “Meet the Prs” terview 2012. </p><p class="endmark">“I am absolutely fortable wh the fact that men marryg men, women marryg women and heterosexual men and women marryg another are entled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberti,” he add. “And que ankly, I don’t see much of a distctn beyond that.”</p></div><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><div class="expand-byle-ntributors articleByleContaer"><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><div class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--has-image expand-byle__thumbnail"><a href="><picture><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="" height="48" width="48"/></picture></a></div><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name"><a href=">Summer Concepcn</a></span><span class="byle-social 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