Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill earlier this week that would make it harder LGBT individuals to seek mental health services, legislation Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke said is not good for business. ‘We’re against this,’ Berke said. ‘We have lots of problems in our state and in our country and this really isn’t one of them.’ The bill is on its way to the Governor’s desk. Berke said Chattanooga had the third highest wage growth in the country for a mid-sized city. ‘We want to see that momentum continue and anything that takes us off that track is not good for the city,’ he added. Tennessee is the latest state, following Georgia and North Carolina, to propose controversial anti-LGBT legislation. In North Carolina, a host of major companies like Salesforce , IBM , Netflix , Facebook
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