"As the Nashville Banner reports, state Rep. Gino Bulso (R) filed three anti-LGBTQ+ bills this week, two of which challenge the Supreme Court's decisions establishing the rights of same-sex couples to legally marry and that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects U.S. employees from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Bulso went so far as to title his House Bill 1472 the "Banning Bostock Act." The bill, according to the Banner, would explicitly exclude sexual orientation and gender identity from Tennessee's definition of sex-based discrimination, in defiance of the Supreme Court's 2020 decision."
"Bulso's H.B. 1473, meanwhile, purports 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," and thus are not "required to recognize a marriage or a purported marriage between individuals of the same sex, notwithstanding any other law." A third bill, H.B. 1474, or the "No Pride Flag or Month Act," would do just what its title suggests."
State Rep. Gino Bulso filed three bills aimed at rolling back legal protections and recognition for LGBTQ people in Tennessee. House Bill 1472, labeled the "Banning Bostock Act," would remove sexual orientation and gender identity from the state's definition of sex-based discrimination. House Bill 1473 claims private citizens and organizations are not bound by the Fourteenth Amendment or Obergefell v. Hodges and would relieve them of recognizing same-sex marriages. House Bill 1474, the "No Pride Flag or Month Act," would ban Pride flags and related "pride" imagery from state property. Tennessee already enacted H.B. 878 allowing officials to refuse to solemnize same-sex ceremonies.
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