Tennessee passes nation’s first law limiting drag shows
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🗓️ 7 March 2023
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Tennessee has become the first state to explicitly ban drag shows in public places. Gov. Bill Lee signed the provision into law prohibiting “adult cabaret performances” that include “male or female impersonators” in areas where minors could watch. Similar laws have been introduced in at least fourteen other states.
In response to this law, critics have mounted an “ad hominem” attack. As Christians, how can we stand up to ad hominem assaults?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, March the 7th, 2023. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:12.2 | Tennessee has become the first state to explicitly ban drag shows in public places. |
| 0:18.8 | Governor Bill Lee signed a provision into law prohibiting adult cabaret |
| 0:23.4 | performances that include male or female impersonators in areas where minors could watch. Similar laws |
| 0:31.0 | have been introduced in at least 14 other states. However, Governor Lee was criticized after a photo surfaced on Reddit that seemed to be |
| 0:40.3 | the governor wearing a dress from a 1977 Franklin High yearbook. A spokesman from the high school |
| 0:47.9 | said the photo appeared to be Lee, but noted there was no name under it. A spokesman for the |
| 0:53.3 | governor responded, |
| 0:54.8 | the bill specifically protects children from obscene, sexualized entertainment |
| 0:59.3 | and any attempt to conflate this serious issue with light-hearted school traditions |
| 1:04.6 | is dishonest and disrespectful to Tennessee families. |
| 1:09.2 | In similar news, Texas State Representative Nate Schlutzline, |
| 1:13.6 | a Republican, recently authored a bill that would restrict drag performances in the state. |
| 1:18.6 | Then, according to NBC News, a video surfaced that appeared to show him skipping, running, and dancing in a park |
| 1:26.6 | while donning a black sequin |
| 1:28.2 | dress and a red eye mask. |
| 1:30.7 | Schlot's line, a first-term state representative and former pastor responded, and I quote, |
| 1:37.0 | "'Y'all really going crazy over me wearing a dress as a joke back in school for a theater |
| 1:42.7 | project? |
| 1:43.7 | Yeah, that's not a sexually explicit drag show. |
| 1:47.2 | L.O.L. Y'all will twist anything. End quote. When we don't like the message, our first instinct is to |
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