They Just Came For Marriage!

We seen the handwriting on the wall, well now it has come fruition!

Tennessee’s newest anti-LGBTQ bills go against U.S. Supreme Court rulings

WPLN

By Marianna Bacallao

February 11, 2026

Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a host of anti-LGBTQ bills that would run counter to U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

Two measures, both proposed by Rep. Gino Bulso, R-Franklin, would challenge landmark cases that legalized same-sex marriage and established protections for discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, questioned the legality to going against Bostock v. Clayton County, which established that LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“We’re talking about federal law that supersedes state law,” Johnson said. “You can’t just ignore the federal law. So, therein is the problem for those of us who believe in our U.S. Constitution.”

And get a load of this take on the bill!

Marriage Equality and the Rise of Private-Citizen Protection Laws

Tennessee Stands

Anne Lowery

February 8, 2026

This past Tuesday, the Children and Family Affairs Subcommittee heard HB1473/SB1746, a bill sponsored by Rep. Gino Bulso (R – District 61) and Sen. Janice Bowling (R – District 16) , which would clarify that “Private citizens and organizations are not bound by the Fourteenth Amendment or by the Supreme Court’s purported interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015), and no private citizen or organization in this state is required to recognize a marriage or a purported marriage between individuals of the same sex, notwithstanding any other law.”

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It’s important that we understand how we got here, as Tennessee has been in this fight for years. The conversation needs to go in two directions, one being the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage from a federal level and two, the moral implications. According to the American College of Pediatricians, the only leading medical organization fighting the transgender ideology in children, “Psychological theory of child development has always recognized the critical role that mothers play in the healthy development of children. More recent research reveals that when fathers are absent, children suffer as well. Girls without fathers perform more poorly in school, are more likely to be sexually active and become pregnant as teenagers. Boys without fathers have higher rates of delinquency, violence, and aggression.” The AACP also reports that, “This research has revealed that children reared in same-sex households are more likely to experience sexual confusion, engage in risky sexual experimentation, and later adopt a same-sex identity.”

Okay, the According to the American College of Pediatricians has about ~700 members and is a socially conservative advocacy group! While the American Academy of Pediatrics has ~67,000 member and supports LGBTQ+ rights and provides evidence-based guidelines for gender-affirming care.

They believe it is their god giving right to discriminate.