Tennessee To Pass Law Allowing LGBT Bullying

Tennessee is now about to pass a bill that allows religious freedom in schools. This sounds like a good thing on the outside, but what will this do to other students?

For the longest time, people have wanted to be able to discuss their religious beliefs in schools, but many people haven't looked at the downside. Tennessee is about to pass a law that could do a lot of damage to students, especially those in the LGBT community.

In this bill, known as the "Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act", will allow students to be able to discuss their religious views in school. Students will be able to write answers like "God" as answers to chemistry test questions, do reports and papers on certain religious topics, and will even allow the freedom of religious speech. It sounds all great and dandy until you get to the one problem that is beginning to worry lots of people, including me. With this bill, students will not be allowed to preach hate in their schools as long as it abides by their religions. So what does this mean for LGBT students?

Let's look at an example. You're sitting in class and an evangelical Christian has an announcement from her church that she would like to tell the school--that homosexuality is a sin. They can tell you that you need to abandon your lifestyle or you're going to hell. They can tell you this all day long and the schools won't be able to do anything about it because it is a common Christian belief.

This, for me, is the problem.

Every day we have hundreds of people kill themselves. Approximately every 13 minutes someone commits suicide, and for me, with this type of speech now being allowed in schools, the suicide rate will only rise from here. We've come to a point in our country where we need to take a loom what we're actually telling people, because while you may think telling someone their going to hell for loving someone of the same-sex is a good thing, it really isn't. It's cruel. It's a misunderstood part of the Bible. It's something that we as people really need to examine a little bit more closely.

So what happens when gay students are going to be depressed, hurting themselves, or scared to go to school because of this freedom of religion in schools? For the longest time we've seen things on the news about girls who can't bring their Bibles to school, or how you can't put up flyers about God, etc. and we all wonder why. But now that this will no longer be an issue in some states, including Texas and Oklahoma, we need to look at the real reasons behind the ban of religion in school.

If we allow religion in schools, it will only cause more problems. It's not solving anything by allowing someone to tell everyone in their school that gay people are going to hell.

We need to take a stand against this, because as a Christian myself, I don't even agree with this bill. If it passes, there may be a lot more problems than we've had before.