A report this week claims that Tennessee schools have implemented a program designed to help gay students become straight. Is this real or fake? The story is satire. The report comes from the “satirical” website National Report. In the fake article, we read: Beginning May 1st of this year, the state of Tennessee is implementing a mandatory school program designed for all children grades K-12 to help homosexual males and females choose to become straight. The gay-to-straight conversion therapy treatment will be used in all of Tennessee’s 1,693 public school curriculum and is already gathering a large amount of support as well as those who disapprove of the new program. This photo was included with the fake National Report story. It dates back to Bachmann’s 2012 Presidential campaign. The fake story has received significant sharing on social media, often by readers unaware of the satirical nature of the website. National Report published a nearly identical story in August 2013, stating that Arizona had passed such a mandate. The article was perhaps inspired by the real report of a bill in Tennessee which has been criticized as a way to allow bullying of LGBT students in the name of religious freedom. [...]
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