Not the Onion: Tenn. House votes 69-17 to approve anti-Sex Week resolution

[n2doc]

NASHVILLE — A fortitude condemning a University of Tennessee’s Sex Week as “an inhuman event” and “an vast injustice of tyro fees and extend moneys” was authorized by a House on Monday night over protests of some Democrats that students’ rights were being ignored.

The magnitude upheld on a 69-17 opinion with other member holding no position one approach or a other. The fortitude now goes to a Senate.

House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada of Franklin pronounced during discuss that if university officials omit HJR661, that amounts to an countenance of opinion with no authorised impact, “There might be stronger actions entrance from this body.”

Still tentative in a Legislature are measures to put new restrictions on a use of tyro fees that could impact appropriation of UT Sex Week, scheduled for subsequent week on a Knoxville campus. The eventuality features, according to a resolution, “an aphrodisiac cooking class, drag show, and condom scavenger hunt.”

more
http://www.tnnewsfeed.com/bartlett/house-votes-69-17-to-approve-anti-sex-week-resolution/

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2014/feb/24/state-house-votes-condemn-uts-sex-week/

I don't know what's going on with the language in the first article, though....reads like a bad google translation...

[gordianot]

1. I suggest they counter sex week with a sexual abstinence week, seems appropriate.

[pipoman]

2. geez..almost undecipherable

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Seems to be a feature of tnnewsfeed.com - from the home page:

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and the best:
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It gets run through automatic translation twice, perhaps? Is it a way to get round copyright restrictions?

[cali]

3. there's no place like home. there's no place like home. so glad I live in Vermont

our legislators- even the repubs- are sane.

[liberal N proud]

4. Anti-Sex? Now I am convinced the republicans are on a mission to extinguish humans from the planet

They are against anything that will protect the environment, pro war, pro gun, anti health care and now they are anti-Sex.

[NYC_SKP]

5. That's one weird ass translation. Here's the full article:

Well, a link to it. The knoxnews link requires subscription.

A resolution condemning the University of Tennessee Sex Week as “an atrocious event” and “an outrageous misuse of student fees and grant monies” was approved by the House Monday night over protests of some Democrats that students’ rights were being ignored.

The measure passed on a 69-17 vote with other representatives taking no position one way or the other. It now goes to the Senate.

House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada of Franklin said during debate that if UT officials ignore HJR661, which amounts to an expression of opinion with no legal impact, “There may be stronger actions coming from this body.”

Still pending in the Legislature are measures to put new restrictions on the use of UT student fees that could impact funding of UT Sex Week, scheduled on the Knoxville campus next week and including, according to the resolution, “an aphrodisiac cooking class, drag show, and condom scavenger hunt.”

More at:

http://knoxblogs.com/humphreyhill/2014/02/24/ut-sex-week-condemnation-passed-house-democrat-protests/