I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Earlier, I posted a story about advocates in favor of anti-bullying legislation expressing disappointment the legislation did not end up included in Race to the Top reforms. In that story, I quoted Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, from a Wednesday press release:
In fact, Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, put out a press release late Wednesday night expressing concern that Sens. Gerald VanWoerkom (R-Norton Shores) and Wayne Kuipers (R-Holland) “may support adding ‘gay rights’ language to a public school funding bill under the guise of protecting students from bullying, the first time ever such language would appear anywhere in state law.”
Turns out Glenn has it wrong.
The state legislature passed, and Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed into law The Regional Convention Authority Act in 2008. The law reads in part:
(10) A board shall establish policies to assure that the board and the authority shall not do either of the following:
(a) Fail or refuse to hire, recruit, or promote; demote; discharge; or otherwise discriminate against a person with respect to employment, compensation, or a term, condition, or privilege of employment, or a contract with the authority because of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, height, weight, marital status, partisan considerations, or a disability or genetic information that is unrelated to the person’s ability to perform the duties of a particular job, position, or contract.
(b) Limit, segregate, or classify an employee, a contractor, or applicant for employment or a contract in a way that deprives or tends to deprive the employee, contractor, or applicant of an employment opportunity or otherwise adversely affects the status of an employee, contractor, or applicant because of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, height, weight, marital status, partisan considerations, or a disability or genetic information that is unrelated to the person’s ability to perform the duties of a particular job or position.
In an e-mail, Glenn took the fact checking in stride.
You snooze, you lose. Asleep at the switch. Various other metaphors.
Obviously snuck one by us last year on a really high profile bill: the regional convention facility authority, a long-time hotbed of homosexual activism. Just kidding.
Glenn did not, however, take the opportunity to amend his earlier statement.
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