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English: Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville. Français : Le capitole de l'état du Tennessee à Nashville (États-Unis). (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) NASHVILLE, Tennessee , June 26, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A new law banning explicit sex education, spearheaded after an anti- AIDS group two years ago demonstrated oral sex on anatomical models in front of high schoolers, took effect in Tennessee this week. The law emerged after one Nashville parent in 2010 learned his 17-year-old daughter’s class had seen the performance of “safe” oral sex by the anti-AIDS group, Nashville CARES. “It took me by surprise,” Rodrick Glover told The Tennessean at the time. “My daughter thought it was pornography.” In response, the Tennessee gay news source Out and About  targeted  Glover as numbering among “fundamentalist bigots” who oppose the methods of Nashville CARES because the group “does not discriminate based on sexual orientation and, in fact, is considered to be gay-affirming.”

Image via Wikipedia Discrimination, though cast in a negative light in modern society , can be an important quality, and even a virtue that reflects wisdom and prudence, argued Bishop Julian Porteous, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, in a column Wednesday. The bishop was responding to a call last month from the Green Party in New South Wales to scrap religious exemptions in the state’s anti-discrimination legislation , which is designed to protect faith-based schools and services. Even with such exemptions, legislation of this nature has been used in Western countries to hinder, or even silence, people of faith and others espousing traditional views on issues like homosexuality and abortion. Last month, the U.K.‘s high court barred a Christian family from acting as foster parents because of their opposition to the homosexual lifestyle.  In the high-profile case, the court ruled that laws protecting people from discrimination based on sexual orientation trumped the right to not be d