How else are we to interpret this: “Republican Gov. Rick Snyder Thursday signed into law HB 4770 which prohibits public employers from providing partner benefits to domestic partners of public employees.” The reach of this law is sweeping, prohibiting not only state agencies but also counties, townships, cities, school districts and community colleges from providing [...]

Woodside Church has long been known as Flint, Michigan’s liberal Christian church.  An inter-denominational church, Woodside affiliates with United Church of Christ (UCC) and American Baptist Churches USA (ABC-USA). Late in August of 2006, Woodside made the papers in a most extraordinary way: The oldest Baptist church in Flint MI is the first Baptist congregation [...]

Update: AC360 does a great job summarizing the case and bringing to light the fact that Chris Armstrong isn’t the first young person that Andrew Shirvell has targeted.   Well it took long enough, but outgoing Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox finally got it through his thick skull that his employee, the anti-gay stalker Andrew [...]

Michigan’s Governor Jennifer Granholm pulled no punches with this tweet earlier today. If I was still Attorney General and Andrew Shervill worked for me, he would have already been fired. In an interview on CNN’s AC360 last night, Attorney General Mike Cox was still defending the right of his assistant attorney general, Andrew Shervill, to [...]

Back in April, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general in Michigan, started a blog called “Chris Armstrong Watch”.  You may have seen him boasting about it last night on CNN’s AC360.  The blog is a cyber-bullying attack on Chris Armstrong, student body president at University of Michigan.  Armstrong is under attack simply because he is [...]

One Kalamazoo press release courtesy Bilerico    Kalamazoo residents approve nondiscrimination ordinance    ”Our campaign started with a very basic idea, and today voters confirmed that we are One Kalamazoo,” said Campaign Manager, Jon Hoadley.    With only absentee ballots outstanding, 65 percent of Kalamazoo voters have approved Ordinance 1856 by a vote of 6,463 [...]

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Blend reader Alexander tells us that ONE Kalamazoo is airing its first television ad.  Quite exciting!  He says Kalamazoo is a small city, and ONE Kalamazoo has an even smaller budget, but the ad is remarkably well done, and I think everyone should see it.  I love the coverage you folks do on the Maine [...]