The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals chose to preserve basic standards of moral decency when it recently ruled in favor of a new Tennessee law increasing protections for children against exposure to sexually provocative live performances in our state.
Like many of the people I represent in the Tennessee House of Representatives, I was shocked in 2022 when a city leader in Jackson, TN, approved a “family-friendly” drag show in a public park. We raised legitimate concerns about the adult nature of the event, based on past shows in 2019 and 2021, and that it would be performed openly in front of children.
I’m not sure why any parent would choose to take their child to see a grown man in a dress pretending to be a woman while performing a sexually explicit show or reading a book. But make no mistake, the goal is to normalize certain sexual behaviors by sacrificing the innocence…
