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TENNSEE'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL SPARKS BIPARTISAN CRICISM
Nashville, Tennsee – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights anizatn – nmns the Tennsee Senate for passg SB 1440, a bill that attempts to discrimate agast LGBTQ+ Tennseans by difyg “sex” as “a person’s immutable blogil sex as termed by anatomy and geics existg at the time of birth and evince of a person’s blogil sex” throughout state .
The Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. Supporters argue the measure is need to give relig officials, upl and others opposed to gay marriage an optn that wouldn’t nflict wh their beliefs.
Crics say ’s a liberate effort to circumvent the Supreme Court’s 2015 lg legalizg gay marriage and uld lead to stly legal battl.
TENNSEE ERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BILL
“This argument that is gog to set up two separate paths to marriage is blatantly unnstutnal vlatn of the Obergefell cisn, which is the law of the land, ” said attorney Abby Rubenfeld, who 2013 helped lead the challenge to Tennsee’s ban on same-sex su, which was filed by Rubenfeld, was clud the SCOTUS se that eventually legalized gay marriage 2015.