One of the most outrageous and embarrassing “hate crimes” was just committed in Rhea County – this attempt to remove and restrict an entire class of human beings from living in a community in America is the most pathetic hate crime I have ever witnessed out of this state since slavery.

I was raised, and have raised my children, with more liberal and humanistic views, thank God, and anyone who supports this recent unimaginable quest to strip basic human rights of love, justice and the pursuit of happiness away from a minority class of American citizens should be “thrown to the lions” since we’re now moving back in time to when the human IQ and size of our brains were as puny as these Rhea County commissioners have proved their own to be.

What an embarrassment to watch on CNN the twang talking, tobacco spitting, Bible desecrating, hate crime offenders prance their medieval age beliefs, leaving the rest of the world confirmed on previous assumptions of what an often backwoods, cow tipping, discriminating state Tennessee is said to be.

First they say the ancient old fossils scientists have uncovered for thousands of years proving the evolution of man theory is simply “not according to the Bible so therefore untrue” and then they say they want to get the people-loving-people of the same sexual orientation “out of here” because “the Bible says it's wrong,” – does anyone read the United States Constitution anymore? Has everyone forgotten the reason why America exists today? Because our forefathers wanted freedom from religious and political suppression?

Maybe the President should propose an Amendment to the Constitution that all of the rights contained therein are only applicable to those who read and follow the Bible which would thereby cancel out the original intentions of the men and women who created America as a safehaven for the religiously and politically supressed? Maybe we should send all the gays to one island, along with the lepers and mentally ill, and give them their own Constitution banning heterosexuals and healthy people?

If we do, I vote to include all the narrow-minded, judgmental folks working on this proposal in Rhea County – because judging people is WRONG ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE and is certainly NOT HEALTHY!

Terribly Disappointed.
Lucy Bach
Chattanooga
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