Advocates for Michigan s LGBTQ community are calling lawmakers move to expand the state s civil rights law to include them a victory that s "been a long time coming." The measure, Senate Bill 4, turns a series of court rulings into codified law, giving protections from bias based on sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Tracy Hall, executive director of OutFront Kalamazoo, a community resource center, said that because the state s Democrat-controlled Legislature put the law on the books, LGBTQ rights can t easily be undone. "We had a court ruling, we had local ordinances - but now, we actually have field protections in our state statute that do protect us when it comes to hiring and firing, public accommodations and housing," she said, "and these are big things." Michigan joins 22 other states and Washington, D.C., to extend basic civil rights to the LGBTQ community. " .
As part of a series, Faith in Action, sponsored by the Fetzer Institute, Southwest Michigan Second Wave speaks with local religious leaders and OutFront Program Manager Dell Darnell about the 15-year-old Faith Alliance, a group comprised of 14 local
Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion Candy McCorkle released a statement to the Western Michigan University community addressing recent attacks on Outfront Kalamazoo, an LGBTQIA+ resource center.
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