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Michigan House strips exceptions from anti-bullying bill, sends it back to Senate
LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan House of Representative this week passed its own version of the anti-bullying bill, removing the controversial language inserted by Senate Republicans that allowed for exceptions to the law for “a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction.”
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Critics blast anti-bullying law for allowing exceptions based on religion, moral beliefs
The Michigan state Senate on Wednesday passed the “Matt’s Safe School Law,” an anti-bullying bill that contained a last minute addition by senate Republicans that essentially nullified the bill by allowing an exception to the law for “a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of a school employee, school volunteer, pupil, or a pupil’s parent or guardian.”
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Michigan senate committee approves bills to destroy partner healthcare benefits
LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan state Senate committee on Wednesday approved a pair of bills that would eliminate eliminate health care benefits for unmarried partners of public employees across the state.
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Michigan House passes bills to deny unmarried partner healthcare benefits
The Michigan House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that would eliminate health care benefits for unmarried partners of state employees. Additionally, the measures prohibit any state government entity in Michigan from providing such benefits and prohibit unions from including them in collective bargaining agreements.
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Michigan to consider dropping health benefits for unmarried partners of state employees
A pair of measures is due for consideration and a vote in the Michigan House of Representatives on Thursday that would eliminate health care benefits for unmarried partners of public employees.
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Commentary
Pour a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, let’s have a conversation, shall we?
It’s really up to us to defend ourselves, our families, and our freedoms and the best way to start is to dispel these lies, this hateful propaganda foisted upon the American public by these so-called “loving” Christian groups and expose them for the hate mongers they truly are.
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Equality Michigan: Hate violence against gay, transgender citizens is not slowing
While overwhelming public support is growing for including gay and transgender people in hate crime laws, Michigan is still one of the states that doesn’t, and hate violence against gay and transgender citizens is not slowing.
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Michigan Supreme Court refuses to hear lesbian partner’s child custody case
The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to review a case that could have given gay, lesbian, and unmarried heterosexual couples legal standing to obtain joint custody of their children.
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Michigan GOP lawmakers seeking to ban partner benefits for unmarried couples
During a legislative committee session, the Michigan House Oversight and Reform Committee’s GOP-majority on Tuesday voted to bar public employers from giving benefits to anyone not married or related to an employee.