Posted on 04/02/2015 6:05:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Amid a nationwide firestorm over so-called religious freedom bills, Michigan’s Republican governor is taking cover.
Rick Snyder told the Detroit Free Press on Thursday that he would veto a bill like Indiana’s if it made its way through the state Legislature.
“Given all the events that are happening in Indiana, I thought it would be good to clarify my position,” he told the Detroit paper. “I would veto RFRA legislation in Michigan if it is a standalone piece of legislation.” Though state Religious Freedom Restoration Act bills are not as controversial when the state also has anti-discrimination laws that include LGBT citizens on the books, Indiana’s lack of protections for gays and lesbians has led to accusations that the measure could legalize discrimination.
Connecticut’s Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy told MSNBC that passing one without the other, as Gov. Mike Pence did in Indiana, makes Pence a “bigot.”
Snyder further told the Free Press that he would not sign an RFRA bill until broader, separate anti-discrimination legislation passed as well — indicating that even an RFRA bill containing language that explicitly bars businesses from using it to defend discrimination against LGBT people would not suffice.
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Definite POTUS ambitions
perhaps the michigan legislature should copy and paste the federal rfra and call it the bill clinton act. then send it to synder.
Snyder has been nothing but a coward, so this is no surprise. It seems that each news cycle gives me a new reason to be happy to not have cast my ballot for him.
” Snyder has been nothing but a coward,”
He has a lot of company in the GOPe.
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