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.
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has endorsed Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in the Michigan Republican primary for governor.
The announcement was made on Cox’s gubernatorial campaign website. From the release:
“Mike Cox is best described as Michigan’s Pro-Life, Pro-gun conservative candidate for Governor,” said Huckabee. “Mike is an innovative, strong leader who is not afraid to take a stand on an important issue. He is opposed to the runaway tax and spend policies we are seeing at the federal and state levels.”
It’s interesting that Huckabee and Cox are promoting Cox’s anti-abortion and pro-gun stances, while ignoring his anti-gay credentials. Cox successfully defended the state’s anti-marriage equality amendment before the state’s high court. Under that ruling, public employees could no longer receive domestic partner benefits. Public employers have since created an insurance program called Other Eligible Individual, which allows a state employee to name any non-married adult as a beneficiary of the employee’s insurance.
Huck himself is no slacker when it comes to anti-gay standard bearings. In 2008, the former Arkansas governor caused a stir when he implied that the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights movement was not the same as the civil rights movement of the 60s.
During an interview with Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, Huckabee had this to say:
HUCKABEE: It’s a different set of rights. People who are homosexuals should have every right in terms of their civil rights, to be employed, to do anything they want. But that’s not really the issue. I know you talked about it and I think you got into it a little bit early on. But when we’re talking about a redefinition of an institution, that’s different than individual civil rights. We’re never going to convince each other.
BEHAR: Well, segregation was an institution, too, in a way. it was right there on the books.
HUCKABEE: But here is the difference. Bull Connor was hosing people down in the streets of Alabama. John Lewis got his skull cracked on the Selma bridge.
In an exclusive interview with Michigan Messenger and Between the Lines Newspaper, a state wide newspaper for the LGBT community, in December of 2008, he clarified his views:
“I just said there is a difference between the civil rights movement of African-Americans who were essentially hosed down in the streets by Bull Connor in Birmingham and beaten with their skulls crashed in on the bridges of Selma for being black. Not for their behavior. Not for anything other than their race. I said that was a different situation than asking for marriage to be overturned in California.”
The real question here is if Mike Cox is taking a play from the Cameron Lynch play book and hiding his anti-gay views.
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