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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 ]
At the time of filing, Michigan law restricted second-parent adoption to married couples and did not license or recognize same-sex marriages. [8] In August 2012, Judge Bernard A. Friedman invited the couple to amend their suit to challenge the state's ban on same-sex marriage, "the underlying issue". [1] They did so on September 7, 2012. [9]
Public polling suggests about 70 percent of Americans agree same-sex marriage should be legally protected
A Republican state lawmaker in Michigan said gay marriage should be “illegal again,” an inflammatory remark that prompted swift rebuke from Democrats.. State Rep. Josh Schriver (R) made the ...
"It doesn't seem to follow that pregnancy and then parenthood are all part of the same burden," the Supreme Court justice said.
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 ...
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 ...