Tennessee County Decides Not to Ban Gays After All

This pretty much sums it up:

The county that was the site of the Scopes "Monkey Trial"
over the teaching of evolution Thursday reversed its call to ban
homosexuals. Rhea County commissioners took about three minutes to
retreat from a request to amend state law so the county can charge
homosexuals with crimes against nature. The Tuesday measure passed 8-0.
County attorney Gary Fritts said the initial vote triggered a
"wildfire" of reaction. "I've never seen nothing like this,"
he said Thursday.
[...]
But 12-year-old Caitlin Kinney, attending the meeting with her mother,
said she supported the commissioners' initial vote. "I think they
should go further, try to see if they can ban them," she said. "It's
not a Christian thing." The politically conservative county holds an
annual festival commemorating the 1925 trial at which high school
teacher John T. Scopes was convicted of teaching evolution.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 19, 2004 at 11:51 AM | Permalink