The first is one of those "let gays die" bill:
House Bill No. 5040 would prohibit public and private colleges from disciplining “a student in a counseling, social work, or psychology program because the student refuses to counsel or serve a client as to goals that conflict with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of the student.”The second is what the US Chamber of Commerce did in Tennessee, with the help of Nissan, Comcast, FedEx, AT&T and a number of other top American companies:
If passed, the law would be known as the “Julea Ward Freedom of Conscience Act,” after an Eastern Michigan University student who was removed from the counseling program because she refused to counsel someone who is gay.
House Bill No. 5039 would prohibit state agencies and units of local government – such as cities, townships, counties, school districts, and public and community colleges – from adopting any ordinance or policy that includes, as a protected class, any classification not included in the state’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. All classifications already listed in current ordinances or policies would be voided.We should be demanding that every company that supported repealing gay and trans rights in Tennessee be at the forefront of stopping this legislate in Michigan, and everywhere else it's proposed. They caused this to happen, and now it's spreading nationwide.
Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976 prohibits discrimination based on “religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, or marital status.” It does not protect people on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
