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The Michigan Senate passed hate crime bills package in December 2024 without amendment - immediately after the news reports of a Michigan man who “plotted and threatened the murder of gay men”. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] The Governor of Michigan in January 2025, signed the hate crime bills package into law, with the law going into effect 90 days after ...
In Florida, a 1977 law prohibited adoption by homosexuals following the anti-gay Save Our Children campaign led by Anita Bryant. In November 2008, a state circuit court struck down the law through In re: Gill , a case involving a gay male couple raising two foster children placed with them in 2004 by state child welfare workers. [ 53 ]
The first attempt to restrict gay and lesbian rights through a state wide ballot measure occurred in 1978 in California. [2] While the measure failed, the late-1980s and early 1990s saw a resurgence in ballot initiatives, culminating in proposed state constitutional amendments in Oregon and Colorado not only to repeal existing anti-discrimination ordinances but to proactively prohibit the ...
Public polling suggests about 70 percent of Americans agree same-sex marriage should be legally protected
In September 2023, after the Michigan House Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony on House Bill 4718, Pohutsky wrote in a post on X that Michigan is among the top 10 states that most ...
USA Today afterwards stated that in addition to LGBTQ employment discrimination, "The court's ruling is likely to have a sweeping impact on federal civil rights laws barring sex discrimination in education, health care, housing and financial credit." [378] On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled by a 6–3 vote in 303 Creative LLC v.
Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver (R) rebuked gay marriage in a Monday social media post that has drawn backlash from some of the state’s top Democrats. “Make gay marriage illegal again ...
On March 21, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled the state's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples unconstitutional. More than 300 same-sex couples married in Michigan the next day before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed enforcement of the district court's decision. On November 6, the Sixth ...