Posted on 09/18/2017 11:28:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
LANSING — A long-stalled movement to make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT people may gain traction — not in the Legislature but with a Michigan board that is being asked to declare that such discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations is already unlawful under state law.
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission will meet today to consider the request after two months of receiving public feedback, including roughly 300 comments. The interpretive statement, if issued, would say that discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is a form of sex discrimination outlawed under the state’s 1976 civil rights law.
The request from LGBT rights group Equality Michigan has revived a political fight between Democrats and Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature who have been at odds over expanding civil rights protections for LGBT citizens. Outside allies also have offered sharply different views on the commission’s responsibility and authority in the wake of federal rulings declaring LGBT-based discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations is forbidden.....
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Unelected, unaccountable board.
Yes, LGBTs should not be discriminating against anyone.
Oh wait . . .
Martin Luther King must be ready to rise from his grave and punch out some folks. ;-)
Effectively - the leftists have established a class based society.
White males are the only group not protected and, therefore, can be discriminated against and cannot have special dispensation made for.
Slicing down the line - protected classes have more power than religious organizations as civil rights don’t protect organizations - just individuals - ergo civil rights trump constitutional law like the first amendment and freedom of religion.
Add hate crimes to this (which, again, only apply to protected classes) and the first amendments freedom of speech is trumped as well as the 4th amendment (with prop 8’s donations made public because it opposing it was a “hate crime”)
We are no longer a free country.
That's how democrats do it.
More fools trying to act PC.
What is “sexual orientation?”
Is the transgender T a sexual orientation or is it something else?
Are L, G, and B the only “sexual orientations” receiving protection in a potential regulation or law?
Are there other “sexual orientations” other than L, G, and B?
Do these receive protections?
Does “discrimination on the basis of” refer only to “discrimination against” or does it also mean “discrimination in support of?”
If a government agency celebrates, say, the condition of T, does that constitute a violation of “discrimination on the basis of” law?
Attack the LGayBiTrans issue head on with the Male to Male sex of the “G” and don’t let up and don’t let them change the subject.
The Centers for Disease Control warn against male to male sex and consider it a deadly transaction. Just focus on this one issue and ask the LGBT how they can support the spreading of disease. Do not let them change the subject. Attack the weak point in the L G B T that they have ZERO defense of. If the G is spreading disease why support their agenda? From this defense point you force them to reveal the truth of thier deadly lifestyle.
So how do you decide who is gay?
SCIENCE DENIERS!!
Forcing people to accept what your religion may not accept ,,, now that sounds fair enough !
Ain’t that the truth.
This will go over well in Dearborn, heh.
It would be much better to make LGBT illegal.
Not as if any pol/judge/lawyer (but I repeat myself) can noodle, but *clear* violation of 1st A. Rights: association.
Whom one wishes to associate with (or not) = discrimination.
Eat out or in = discriminating.
WHERE to eat out = discriminating.
These HRO (human ‘rights’ ordinances) create special-rights for one group over another, suppressing inalienable Rights.
To know who rules over you, seek those whom you cannot criticize.
“The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan says it’s gotten more than 500 complaints of LGBT discrimination in employment, housing, education and public accommodations in the past 17 years.”
With all the hundreds of “gay” hoaxes perpetrated over that same period of time, the veracity of their claims is kind of tarnished.
No person is illegal, only conduct is.
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