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Dakerri Rhone posted about Governor Haslam, Keep listening and oppose HB2414 on Facebook 2016-04-14 12:45:46 -0500Sign the petition: Governor Haslam, Keep listening and oppose HB2414. Will you help us get more signatures?
Governor Haslam, Keep listening and oppose HB2414
Sign this NEW petition urging Governor Bill Haslam to keep listening to the voices opposed to the anti-transgender student bathroom bill!
Governor Haslam, please continue to oppose HB2414 and listen to the voices of transgender students and the business community speaking out against the bill. Thank you for considering our views.
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Dakerri Rhone posted about I asked Governor Haslam to veto HB1840, the counseling discrimination bill on Facebook 2016-04-12 13:31:50 -0500I contacted Governor Haslam and urged him to #VetoHB1840. Will you?
I asked Governor Haslam to veto HB1840, the counseling discrimination bill
Take a minute to contact Governor Bill Haslam by phone message or on Twitter and then let us know you did it using this form. Let's get to 500 or more!
I called or Tweeted Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and urged him to veto HB1840, the counseling discrimination bill. I'm asking you to do the same this week.
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Dakerri Rhone signed VETO Hate Bill 1840, the Counseling Discrimination bill 2016-04-08 21:24:41 -0500
VETO Hate Bill 1840, the Counseling Discrimination bill
Please, add your voice and urge Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to veto this discriminatory bill.
Dear Governor Haslam,
We urge you to veto HB1840, which allows counselors to turn away clients based on the counselor's biases and values. This bill puts the focus on the desires of counselors rather than on the needs of clients, damaging the counseling profession and putting clients at risk.
An anti-bullying amendment was stripped from the bill in the House Health Committee leaving youth vulnerable in areas where mental health services are not widely available.
Thank you for considering our views.
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Dakerri Rhone posted about Governor Haslam, Fight for trans students and against SB2387/HB2414 on Facebook 2016-03-21 20:44:52 -0500Sign the petition: Governor Haslam, Fight for trans students and against SB2387/HB2414
Governor Haslam, Fight for trans students and against SB2387/HB2414
Please, join us in encouraging Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to fight against this attack on transgender students.
Dear Governor Haslam,
We call on you to do everything in your power to lobby against passage of SB2387/HB2414, the anti-transgender student bathroom bill. We also ask that you VETO the bill if it reaches your desk.
The bill endangers vulnerable students and it risks significant U.S. Department of Education funds to Tennessee. If this bill became law, the enforcement would be a nightmare for school districts across the state.
Show the world that Tennessee is a welcoming state. Thank you for considering our views.
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Dakerri Rhone posted about Match the Energy on Facebook 2015-11-19 08:46:05 -0600Just made a donation to Tennessee Equality Project
Match the Energy
A generous board member has agreed to match contributions up to $5000 to support our work. We only have $1000 more to go to meet the match. Please, make your contribution today to help us reach the goal and keep fighting for you!
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Dakerri Rhone posted about Updated with a response: Stand against the hate of Ben Bailey of the Central Church of Christ in McMinnville on Facebook 2015-08-17 22:23:21 -0500I'm endorsing Tennessee Equality Project. Please join me!
Updated with response: Stand against the hate of Minister Ben Bailey of the Central Church of Christ in McMinnville
UPDATE: Minister Ben Bailey of the Central Church of Christ called us this morning and talked about his views. He is not pro-equality, but he wants to make absolutely clear that he does NOT support the stoning of LGBT people. You can read his response at the link.
The New Civil Rights Movement has reported on the teachings of Minister Ben Bailey of the Central Church of Christ in McMinnville in which the pastor tries to justify the stoning of LGBT people as biblical.
People of faith and people of no particular faith alike reject the dangerous extremism of Pastor Bailey. At a time when hate crimes are up against LGBT people in Tennessee and at a time when the nationwide murders of transgender people in particular have reached crisis levels, such hate has no rightful place in religion or in civil society.
Despite the pastor's notoriety, hate will NOT define McMinnville or the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. We were in McMinnville recently for the Summer of Love tour with a strong showing of equality advocates. Read the report if you doubt there are many great people in the area living their hopes for full equality. Upper Cumberland Pride, which serves the region, is an organization that is growing again and now reunited to TEP. We know they will continue to raise awareness for the safety and equality of LGBT people in the area.
We urge people of good will across the state and nation to stand with those in McMinnville and the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and against the hateful rhetoric of Pastor Bailey. Add your name as a show of solidarity!
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Volunteer with TEP
TEP needs volunteers throughout the year. Please, fill out this form or contact us at [email protected] for more information. Thank you!
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Dakerri Rhone posted about Tuesday Twitter Team on Facebook 2015-05-03 20:53:14 -0500I signed up to volunteer for Tennessee Equality Project. Join me!
Tuesday Twitter Team
We need you for the Tuesday Twitter Team. Once you sign up, we'll send you a sample message to tweet on Tuesday that you can adapt or edit.
And every Tuesday or almost every Tuesday, we'll send you information about what needs to be tweeted that day. You can help move the equality message forward in Tennessee every Tuesday. Welcome to the TEP Tuesday Twitter Team!
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Marriage PLUS Pledge
MARRIAGE PLUS PLEDGE
I pledge to continue to work for full
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legal and lived equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
people in Tennessee after we achieve marriage equality.
I recognize that we have more work to do on job discrimination, public
accommodations discrimination, housing discrimination, safe
schools/anti-bullying, bisexual erasure and visibility, health disparities,
domestic violence, senior care, HIV/AIDS, hate crimes, documents for
transgender people, and other issues.
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Tell Saks to do the Right Thing!
Add your voice to tell Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th (which has a store in Nashville), and their online stores that transgender employees deserve protection from discrimination on the job and that the company should rescind its position that gender identity is not covered by sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
You can read about the case of transgender employee Leyth Jamal and the repugnant Saks response here.
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Urge Yoke Ministries to Stop Discriminating
Cassie Hopkins, a young bisexual woman, had volunteered at Yoke Youth Ministries in Jefferson County. The program is interdenominational and draws on the work of young adults to mentor middle-school students. She had gone through the screening process and there were no complaints about her work as a volunteer. After disclosing her sexual orientation on Facebook, her supervisor told her that she would no longer be allowed to volunteer, even though there is nothing in Yoke's written policies about sexual orientation. Her supervisor compared bisexuality to alcoholism and drug addiction.
Let's show support for Cassie and remind our fellow Tennesseans and especially Yoke that people can serve and contribute to enriching the lives of youth in our state regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. This is a message Yoke and many others need to hear. Please, add your voice.
We are glad to partner with the LGBT Alumni of Carson-Newman on this project. They first brought the case to our attention.
Note: We are not arguing about whether anyone has the legal ability to discriminate in Tennessee. What we are contesting is whether it is right to exclude talented people from helping youth simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Giving Tuesday Volunteer
Giving Tuesday, a nationwide day of giving following Cyber Monday, is coming up on December 2. TEP is asking our friends to give $10 or more on that day to engage new donors and encourage existing donors to support us with their year-end giving. But we need VOLUNTEERS to help make it successful. We specifically need volunteers to help spread the word about this link . You can get the long form here: http://givingtuesday.razoo.com/story/Giving-Tuesday-For-Equality-In-Tennessee .
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Urge Southern Baptist Leadership to rethink the impact of their teachings on LGBT people
Learn more about the issue and consider signing the petition to add your voice to this call to action.
This week the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is holding a conference in Nashville on marriage, sexuality, and gender. Add your voice to urge them to consider the impact of their teachings on violence against LGBT people and LGBT youth homelessness. According to national estimates, up to 40% of the youth homeless population is LGBT. Many of those youth were turned out of their homes because of certain kinds of religious bias. We believe that rather than holding conferences on how to preserve marriage discrimination, the Southern Baptist Convention's leadership should begin to address the ways in which their teachings contribute to harms to LGBT people.
TEP joined OutCentral and Vanderbilt Divinity School in organizing a protest of the event outside the Opryland Hotel. TTPC and PFLAG also participated. Your voice can help highlight needed changes in the Southern Baptist Convention's approach.
Dakerri Rhone
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