Log Cabin Republicans mock ‘sappy, gay’ resolution honoring country singer TJ Osborne
Gay political group also urges Gov. Bill Lee to veto bill that singles out businesses with trans-friendly restroom accommodations.
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T.J. Osborne Photo courtesy Brothers Osborne
The Log Cabin Republicans of Tennessee issued a press release mocking the outrage over the defeat of a resolution in the Tennessee legislature honoring country music singer TJ Osborne, of the group Brothers Osborne, after he recently came out as gay.
“Gay media is fainting with shock like Nathan Lane in
The Bird Cage to discover that the Tennessee House did not fall over themselves to immediately pass SJR0609, honoring TJ Osborne of Brothers Osborne for coming out as gay.
An all-gender restroom sign – Photo: Ted Eytan, via Wikimedia.
Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill that seeks to compel businesses to bar transgender people from using restrooms aligning with their gender identity by forcing establishments to post signage advertising their restroom policies, in an effort to shame trans-friendly businesses.
Last month, the Tennessee House approved HB 1182, a bill that requires businesses with multi-user restrooms, whether unisex or open to use by people based on their gender identity, to post 8-inch by 6-inch signs outside each restroom reading: “This facility maintains a policy of allowing the use of restrooms by either biological sex, regardless of the designation on the restroom.”