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Catholic church bars gay man from mass following commitment ceremony
MARQUETTE, Mich. — A gay Michigan man says he will worship elsewhere after he was barred from his Catholic church and told he was not allowed to participate in Sunday’s mass with the rest of the congregation.
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Former high-ranking Mich. Republicans support same-sex marriage
DETROIT — Former high-ranking Republicans in the Michigan Legislature are urging a federal appeals court to allow same-sex marriage in the state. They filed a brief Monday at the Cincinnati-based court, urging it to affirm a March decision that threw out Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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Oral arguments set in appeal of Michigan, three other states same-sex marriage rulings
DETROIT — Oral arguments have been scheduled by a federal appeals court in the appeals of same-sex marriage rulings in Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. The Cincinnati-based U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in a court filing Monday that it would hear arguments in the cases on August 6.
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Gay couple sues Mich. for recognition of marriage performed in N.Y.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Two men in the Grand Rapids area are suing to try to force Michigan to recognize their same-sex marriage performed in New York state. Bruce Morgan and Brian Merucci were recently turned down by the Kent County clerk’s office when they presented their New York certificate and applied to change the deed on their home.
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Attack on gay man at Detroit’s Motor City Pride event captured on video
DETROIT — The beating of a gay man was caught on tape at Detroit’s Motor City Pride over the weekend. Christin Howard, 20, told WXYZ-TV that he was taking a picture with a friend at the pride festival when five to eight men started to harass him and hurled anti-gay slurs.
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Fenton, Mich., approves LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance
FENTON, Mich. — The Fenton City Council has approved an ordinance that bans discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. The ordinance allows the city manager to investigate and attempt to come to an agreement “terminating discrimination or reverse the effects of past discrimination.”
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ACLU asks judge to order Michigan to recognize same-sex marriages
DETROIT — The American Civil Liberties Union is asking a judge to order Michigan to recognize more than 300 same-sex marriages performed in March.
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Mich. governor, business coalition urge adding statewide LGBT protections
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday urged legislators to consider updating Michigan’s civil rights law to prohibit discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity, applauding companies and the state’s two largest regional chambers of commerce for joining a business-backed push to amend the law.
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With an eye on the right side of history, judges nix same-sex marriage bans
Robert Shelby, a former Army combat engineer, knocked over the first domino. As a U.S. district judge — appointed in 2012 by President Barack Obama with support from Utah’s two conservative Republican senators — Shelby ruled last December that the state’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
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Saginaw, Mich., kills proposed LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance, again
SAGINAW, Mich. — The Saginaw city council has voted for a second time to kill a proposed LGBT-inclusive anti-discrimination ordinance.