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TexasTowelie

(111,304 posts)
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 09:47 AM Jan 2021

New conservative group Tennessee Stands takes on government mandates

Note: I'm posting this thread so that other members are aware of the group. The logo for the group with the pointed arrow eerily reminds me of the logo that Hillary Clinton used in 2016.




In the six months since Tennessee Stands launched as a fresh conservative voice railing against pandemic policies — galvanizing resistance to COVID-19 emergency orders by state and local officials — the newly established nonprofit has worked to coalesce resistance to government mandates during the pandemic.

Tennessee Stands and its founder, Gary Humble, have filed lawsuits against Gov. Bill Lee and county officials, organized protests over mask mandates and business restrictions in town squares across Tennessee, established a loosely organized string of offshoot organizations on Facebook — Knoxville Stands, Memphis Stands among them — and lobbied for law changes, although there is no record Humble or others associated with the organization have formally registered as lobbyists.

The group is the main impetus behind a bill filed by state Sen. Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, to give parents the right to a religious exemption for any future COVID-19 vaccination mandated by schools. Current law says religious exemptions may be overridden during a pandemic. Pody said he has been working “very hard” with Humble, Tennessee Stands and others on the measure.

Humble, the group’s founder, is a Williamson County resident and father of young children who is also the impetus behind a Facebook group called Recall Williamson that is critical of school board members in his county who have supported mask mandates. Recall Williamson filed suit against the public school district over mask mandates. The suit was blocked by a court order.

Read more: https://tennesseelookout.com/2021/01/21/new-conservative-group-tennessee-stands-takes-on-government-mandates/
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New conservative group Tennessee Stands takes on government mandates (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2021 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2021 #1
ANOTHER idiot repube with an eminently slappable face. CurtEastPoint Jan 2021 #2
He is proof that inbreeding can have undesired results. TexasTowelie Jan 2021 #3
Himbs daddy a JUDGE, don'tcha know. CurtEastPoint Jan 2021 #4
They are rabid reactionaries, not conservatives. blm Jan 2021 #5
Omg, what idiots! Duppers Jan 2021 #6
Stand when you are Turbineguy Jan 2021 #7

Response to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
6. Omg, what idiots!
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 11:46 AM
Jan 2021

How was such an organization ever designated a "nonprofit"? By claiming it's "religious"?

Generally speaking, in order for an organization to fall into a nonprofit classification, it must operate and provide its services without the primary goal of making profits. Nonprofits serve the public interest and are mostly categorized as tax-exempt by the IRS. Nov 29, 2020


This idiot provides a disservice to the people of Tennessee. Just call yourself religious there and you can get away with murder.


Turbineguy

(37,212 posts)
7. Stand when you are
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:05 PM
Jan 2021

intubated.

The good news, they don't put tubes in your ears. Every other orifice is fair game.

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