Michigan Cities Could Lose their Human Rights Ordinances

[purina]

http://ferndale115.com/nuevo/2012/01/01/cities-could-lose-inclusive-ordinances-if-hb5039-passes/

Over a dozen Michigan Cities, including Ferndale, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit, could be stripped of their local human rights ordinances if Michigan HB 5039 passes.

The bill, introduced by Representative Tom McMillin (R-Rochester Hills), would amend the “Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act” to limit protected classes to those outlined in the 1976 law. HB 5039 states “A state agency or until of local government shall not adopt any ordinance, rule, regulation or policy that includes as a protected class, any classification not specifically included as a protected class under this act. Any existing ordinance, rule, regulation, or policy that includes, as a protected class, any classification not specifically included as a protected class under this act is void.”
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McMillin told citizenlink.com, a Focus on the Family affiliate, “I’ve been somewhat active throughout the years in trying to stop some of these special-rights ordinances for homosexual behavior, and notice they’re often used to discriminate against Christians.
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According to Between the Lines, McMillan has been active in campaigning against inclusive protections.
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Representative Lipton said that the best way to oppose such legislation is for residents to contact their state representatives along with those who serve on the Judicial Committee. “When you contact your Representative about a piece of legislation, they are required to pass on your communication to the Representative who introduced the bill. So if people in many districts are writing to their Representatives it can prompt conversations that wouldn’t be had if they just contacted the one introducing it. We listen to our constituents, and if multiple people are contacting us about an issue it tends to get noticed.”

Representative McMillin’s legislative website is http://www.gophouse.com/welcome.asp?District=45, which includes multiple methods of contact. The Judiciary Committee Representatives are listed below, with the Emails linked to their names.

John J. Walsh (R), Committee Chair, 19th District
Kurt Heise (R), Majority Vice-Chair, 20th District
Judson S. Gilbert II (R), 81st District
Kenneth B. Horn (R), 94th District
Kurt Damrow (R), 84th District
Paul Muxlow (R), 83rd District
Bradford C. Jacobsen (R), 46th District
Peter Pettalia (R), 106th District
Pat Somerville (R), 23rd District
Kevin Cotter (R), 99th District
Mark S. Meadows (D), Minority Vice-Chair, 69th District
Bob Constan (D), 16th District
Stacy Erwin Oakes (D), 95th District
Lisa Brown (D), 39th District
Jeff Irwin (D), 53rd District
Phil Cavanagh (D), 17th District
John Olumba (D), 5th District

Equality Michigan lists fifteen cities that have inclusive ordinances that would be nullified by this bill. The list is current as of July 2011, and can be viewed here.

 

[paatreides]

"...special-rights ordinances for homosexual behavior, and notice they’re often used to discriminate against Christians."

Huh? What?? This dude - as well as the Focus on Families organization - are as bat-shit crazy as Santorum and Bachmann.

How do such hate-mongering people get elected to public office in the first place?

 

[swerve]

What is HAPPENING???

Is Michigan becoming the Mississippi of the Midwest???

Such a shame for such a pristine and BEAUTIFUL state made up of WONDERFUL people...

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

"...special-rights ordinances for homosexual behavior, and notice they’re often used to discriminate against Christians."

Huh? What?? This dude - as well as the Focus on Families organization - are as bat-shit crazy as Santorum and Bachmann.

How do such hate-mongering people get elected to public office in the first place?

well

SSSSSSSH"

 

[jslvr05]

It takes bigoted propositions like this to remind me of how vulnerable we all are. It's pretty scary, actually.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

It takes bigoted propositions like this to remind me of how vulnerable we all are. It's pretty scary, actually.

well
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while chess game world ova play
let hope dark ages
SSSH"

ooh

 

[yoshigodguy]

Well good thing I am not living in michigan next year lol

 

[SuprSonic]

A similar bill passed in Tennessee after Nashville expanded its non-discrimination ordinance.

 

[frankfrank]

GODDAM JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

(I curse like this maybe once every ten years or so, but this is something that is likely to DESTROY MY LATE IN LIFE PLANS. I've been aspiring to retire to Ann Arbor more than any other city in the world, but this will fuck it up for me completely.)

You damn fundamentalist Republicans, go to hell.

 

[refujiunderground]

well, who would want to live in a city in michigan anyway? most of their cities are run down and crime infested.

 

[frankfrank]

well, who would want to live in a city in michigan anyway? most of their cities are run down and crime infested.

Definitely true, Michigan has much more than its share of really grim cities...Detroit, Flint, Saginaw...even Lansing...Jackson, Battle Creek, Muskegon, Pontiac

Not to mention that ALL of Michigan's climate totally sucks.

Ann Arbor doesn't fit into that list...yet. It is a MAJOR cultural destination but, best of all, I have more friends and such clustered within 50 miles of there, than in any other entire TWO OR THREE states or provinces put together. Furthermore, I know Ann Arbor "like the back of my hand" - I'm from the area as well.

And the goddam Rethugs in Lansing are doing their best to fuck the whole thing up and flush it down the toilet.

Their laws would allow them, if they so chose to do so, to seize the University of Michigan, install an Emergency Financial Manager after firing the entire power structure, sell the entire campus to the Koch Brothers for $1, and let them turn it into a huge theological indoctrination center.

Yes, I'm from there...and, when I retire, I WANT TO GO HOME. But I can't go there if it's turned into something entirely toxic for human beings to even think of living in.

 

[purina]

"...special-rights ordinances for homosexual behavior, and notice they’re often used to discriminate against Christians."

Huh? What?? This dude - as well as the Focus on Families organization - are as bat-shit crazy as Santorum and Bachmann.

How do such hate-mongering people get elected to public office in the first place?

Well, they do discriminate against Christians by not allowing them to discriminate against LGBT people like god tells them to.

What is HAPPENING???

Is Michigan becoming the Mississippi of the Midwest???

Such a shame for such a pristine and BEAUTIFUL state made up of WONDERFUL people...

Indiana may take the title first, but then Michigan is more likely to follow.

Ind. Gov. Daniels Prepares for New Right-to-Work Battle
Unsurprisingly, union leaders, who contend that the bill would turn the state of Indiana into “Mississippi of the Midwest,” have already vowed to fight the legislation vehemently.

Supporters say Indiana debate builds pressure to approve “right-to-work” in Michigan
State Representative Mike Shirkey disagrees with Snyder and plans to introduce a “right-to-work” bill in the Michigan Legislature.

“Right now, Michigan does not actually touch any states that are labor freedom states and if and when it happens in Indiana, it will become a first and I think it raises the stakes for us to evaluate why it’s important for Michigan to become a labor freedom state,” said Shirkey.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

I don't live in nor have I ever been to Michigan but that is a truly scary thing to have happen. It really cements the fact that there are people (if they can be classed as such) who really truly do not give two shits for human life except for what their myopic narrow-minded eyes consider to be.

is maybe afta 100000 yr tunnel throws cement all planet of humans slows like find da
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anyway

how sweet is da stars at night

 

[looseliam]

And the Fourteenth Amendment gets thrown by the roadside... again.

 

[Ninja108]

Make no mistake..while there are some Democrats who are just as much of foes to the LGBT Community as anyone else,anytime you see hateful legislation like this passed or suggested, you can be sure that 99% of the time, the person who is pushing it will have an R next to their name.

 

[Ninja108]

One more thing..intresting how conservatives are all about local government and judges overturning the will of the people...that's exactly what they're doing here.

 

[sladefan]

Yet another reason why I'm glad we are looking to move out of Michigan to California!! Things keep getting stranger and stranger here and the northern suburbs aren't that great anymore!! Time to move on!!

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Yet another reason why I'm glad we are looking to move out of Michigan to California!! Things keep getting stranger and stranger here and the northern suburbs aren't that great anymore!! Time to move on!!

here a thang if usa put up fa sale ( states ) ta countrys lookin ta expand theirs a assets

is da WE americans get upset or not a worry?

not a got reply it

how lot a plot lands deal with da mess of great mans pleasures all ova world ova 21st century ans 22 be less painful if folk get wear othda shoes ans not upset da ground moved

there go fa great folk not ta read



not gonna think fa few mins cause

thankyou

 

[eveningstandard]

"...special-rights ordinances for homosexual behavior, and notice they’re often used to discriminate against Christians."

Huh? What?? This dude - as well as the Focus on Families organization - are as bat-shit crazy as Santorum and Bachmann.

How do such hate-mongering people get elected to public office in the first place?

how often do you vote ?