Michigan's GOP Attorney General Just Revoked Protections For LGBTQ Individuals

[DonViejo]

Last edited Sat Jul 21, 2018, 06:13 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Law & Crime



by Colin Kalmbacher | 12:58 pm, July 21st, 2018

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette doesn’t believe his state’s civil rights law offers any protections for LGBTQ individuals, according to an advisory opinion issued by Schuette’s office late Friday.

Previously considered something of a moderate, Schuette appears to have shed that label as he is currently running for governor amidst a four-person GOP primary field. Friday’s move is being interpreted as a hard (and homophobic) tack to the right in order to curry favor with the relatively anti-gay Republican Party base.

Schuette’s controversial advisory opinion comes after Republican leaders in the state House and Senate requested a clarification–and revocation–of a recent ruling issued by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission.

In May, the commission voted to expand their own interpretation of the state’s Civil Rights Act. This expansion provided protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identification for Michiganders in areas of employment, housing, education, real estate, public accommodations and public service.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/lgbtq/michigans-gop-attorney-general-just-revoked-protections-for-lgbtq-individuals/

[sandensea]

1. More red meat for their Archie Bunker base.

Governor Flintwater must be getting desperate.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. Gretchen Whitmer is going to win big up there I think.

Come ON Michigan.

[woundedkarma]

15. Hoping so. n/t

[RandySF]

3. Yep

And he'll be governor if we are not careful August 7.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. No surprise.

Mobilizing Against Gays Again.

My fear is many will not care, including many gay people. There will be no "taking to the streets", we will simply be made "illegal".

[Pathwalker]

5. Bull Schittee is and always has been a Teabagger. There's

not a moderate bone in his body. He's the worst AG ever!

[jmowreader]

19. In the Age of Trump...

...anyone to the left of Mussolini is a moderate.

And sadly, to some of these assholes I’ll Duce was a liberal.

[elleng]

6. Bad headline, sorry Law & Crime.

An advisory opinion doesn't revoke.

[DonViejo]

11. Did you read the entire article, elleng?

[DownriverDem]

7. Bad man

Schuette is running in the repub primary for governor along with Calley & Hines. Can't say who would be the best candidate for the Dems to run against.

[marble falls]

8. This is pure mean spiritedness. There are no GBLT "rights" that abridge any of my own ...

rights. How do you get to be the mixing pot the US was once known to be, by excluding everybody else?

[Matthew28]

9. sad

I guess in the gops mind millions of American citizens don't deserve to feel safe.

The gop wants to turn us into Russia or some other place that kills these people for being who they're.

[noneof_theabove]

10. One more ...

"goose step" toward the goal fascism & autocracy.

Screw the "blue wave"....WE NEED A BIBLICAL FLOOD...
to take out these useless, hypocritical, and all the words JC threw out at the temple Right Wing P.o.S.

[Matthew28]

12. I wonder

if I can discriminate against myth believers that believe in something like God. Maybe some of us should start turning the fucking tables on these bastards.

Maybe when they come up to us doing this shit maybe we should say that your belief system is bs and at least we're real. Can't say that about your unjustified beliefs.

[turbinetree]

13. Oh yippie another Federalist Society lawyer that thinks that the fourteeth amendmnet

should be just overturned.......another right wing asshole that hates the Constitution ..............but believes in one man rule...................

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections&p0=263&year=2018&month=11&day=6&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&fromtheme=election

[llmart]

14. Schuette considered a moderate???

Not by anyone I know. He's a GOP stooge and a teabagger. He's also been trying to distance himself from the Flint water crisis and Snyder ever since he started campaigning.

[Demovictory9]

16. what a shame.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. I wonder if this RW AG is feeling emboldened by....

the direction he assumes the USSC may be headed. I can just hear the chatter in christofascist circles, including rumors tRump and Pence will put a steeple and cross on the US Supreme Court building.

...... .....

[sakabatou]

18. Gah!