The Truth about Tennessee. Marriage and Family Life and Abortion Sexual Morality. The state of Marriage. Divorce th worse 14th worse

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1 The Truth about Tennessee Marriage and Family Life and Abortion Sexual Morality Divorce The state of Marriage th worse 14th worse Cost of Family Fragmentation (Divorce and Out of Wedlock children) $757 million in TN State and Local Tax Dollars Annually (2008 figures)

2 Social Policy Fiscal Policy = = = High Divorce 14th High Rejection High Poverty High Tax Cost 7th 11th 15th Wars: 11,706 Abortion: 17,000+ World War I World War II Korean Vietnam War Total Abortions , TN AL 4845 AR 4389 KY 2932 MS 0

3 Babies Saved-Rate of Abortion AL 7319 AR KY MS Straight Talk Sex Sex in Tennessee Chlamydia AIDS Gonorrhea

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5 Social Policy Fiscal Policy = = = Teenage Sex Higher Divorce Higher Poverty Higher Tax Cost "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." Vladimir Lenin to promote and sustain the equality of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons in the State of Tennessee through the e s t a b l i s h m e n t o f f a i r a n d equitable laws protecting these rights and the elimination of laws that would seek to counter this effort.

6 FLICKR/DRAMA QUEEN Keeping the Faith Faith Organizing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Moral and Civil Rights in a Southern State Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite and Marta Cook January 2011 the state illustrates how movements for equality can advance in the face of organized religious and political opposition and how that opposition can spur alliances among faith groups and LGBT advocates. It is important to broaden and reframe the debate, to say that moral equality is as important as legal and social equality. Keeping the Faith FLICKR/DRAMA QUEEN Faith Organizing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Moral and Civil Rights in a Southern State Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite and Marta Cook January With the Metro ordinance now repealed and the damage done in their names [big businesses], there should be opportunities to discuss how they can help pass statewide protections from job discrimination. TN Business Journal May 24, 2011

7 School Systems ACLU American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee With an annual combined budget of approximately $600,000, the ACLU of Tennessee has been chosen to receive a significant infusion of resources over the next four years to significantly grow and expand its programmatic and institutional capacity. While it is crucial to support the First Amendment rights of faith communities to voice their beliefs, it is also crucial to oppose their efforts to impose their theology on a pluralistic democracy

8 Many white and African-American church leaders are increasingly willing to refrain from public opposition to LGBT equality. Moving faith leaders from public opposition to silence is considered by many LGBT activists to be a success. Sometimes this conversion... happens when faith leaders receive negative comments from within or from outside their congregations. Silence = Victory Cultural Captivity Four C s of Cultural Captivity 1. Cognition - Confusion 2. Connection 3. Confidence 4. Commitment

9 Will it matter? Why does it it matter? We do not serve victory. We don t serve results. We serve God. And if, years from now, that means we re the last people left on earth standing for Truth so be it. Tony Perkins