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.
Californians Against Hate, a pro-gay rights group, is exposing the major contributors to that state’s Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in California. Among those on the list is Elsa Prince, mother of Blackwater founder Erik Prince and matriarch of one of the wealthiest and most powerful conservative political families in Michigan.
Prince donated $450,000 to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign. Californians Against Hate has released a TV commercial specifically aimed at Prince’s donation. Here’s the video:
Prince is hardly alone in giving her money to this campaign. Other notable figures include John Templeton, chairman of the Templeton Foundation, which funds an enormous amount of writing and research about science and religion, who gave $1 million.
Another name that jumped out at me was Howard Ahmanson Jr, the reclusive heir to a massive bank fortune who has supported a long and controversial list of causes. For more than a decade, Ahmanson served on the board of the Chalcedon Foundation of Christian Reconstructionist R.J. Rushdoony. Christian Reconstructionists go much further than merely opposing gay marriage; they openly advocate for the establishment of the Mosaic law from the Old Testament of the Bible as the civil and criminal law of the land — including public stonings for gays and women who are not virgins on their wedding day.
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