No Promo Homo in Tennessee – Updated

Filed in National by on May 22, 2011

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the “No Say Gay” bill wending it’s way through the Tennessee legislature.

Well, George Takei, better known to those of us of a certain age as Mr. Sulu from the original Star Trek series, is taking on the homophobes and giving people a way around the bill, if it should become law.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRkIWB3HIEs&feature=share[/youtube]

Set a course for equality, Mr. Sulu, Warp 10!

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  1. jason330 says:
    May 22, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    George Takei has been awesome lately. I’d be proud to be Takei.

  2. cassandra_m says:
    May 22, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    Americablog has a campaign ongoing to ask TN companies to clarify their stance on this bill vs. the Chamber of Commerce’s endorsement of the thing.

    They got ALCOA to Just Say Veto.

    Go over there to sign the petition!

  3. Avagadro says:
    May 22, 2011 at 6:53 pm

    meanwhile, on the left coast:

    East Bay schools offer gay studies for high school students

    Contra Costa Times 5/21/11

    Proposed state legislation, if approved, would add gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders to the list of social and ethnic groups public schools must include in social studies. At two East Bay private schools the debate has gone beyond whether to include gay history in the curriculum. They have taken the next step, offering a high school class dedicated to gay studies. Last school year, The Athenian School in Danville and Maybeck High School in Berkeley both began classes examining the history, contributions and other cultures’ views of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered.

  4. socialistic ben says:
    May 22, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    dont fret asbestos,
    one day the school will teach of the Teabag Tribe. a loud, yet stupid people who once roamed our airwaves and blogs.

  5. jason330 says:
    May 22, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    Sounds good to me. At least two schools in the United States will be teaching the truth about Charleton Heston’s contribution to our history and culture.

  6. anon says:
    May 23, 2011 at 10:03 am

    “… those of us of a certain age …”

    WTF? You trying to make me feel old???

  7. skippertee says:
    May 23, 2011 at 10:17 am

    I remember George from a TWILIGHT ZONE episode pre-dating STAR TREK by about 5 years if that makes you feel any better anon.

  8. Joe Cass says:
    May 24, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    “If you call me Sulu, I’ll sue you. uhHah Hah Hah.” George Takei has been through some of the worst of this country’s blunders while always making Americans better for his suffering.
    A reminder, its tec hey. If you call him tec high you get punched in the eye. Not really, he laughs and explains Japanese dialect. We’ve met twice, he’s a brilliant man with THE greatest diction imaginable! Good thing for Delaware legislators that they passed the civil unions bill because had we brought George in…

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