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WASHINGTON — As Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (click here) weighs a decision whether to sign a bill strengthening the state's religious liberty protections for individuals and businesses, her state is one of several wrestling with a balance between religious liberty and anti-discrimination laws.
The bill comes in the wake of a number of cases across the country in which same-sex couples complained that business owners refused service on the grounds of religious belief. In one prominent example, a New Mexico court said last year that the refusal of wedding photographer Elaine Huguenin to take pictures of a same-sex wedding was not protected under that state's version of the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, since the state was not acting to force an action....
In Michigan, the very definition of "Family" is at stake. I am sure Governor Snyder wants to have nothing to do with the discussion of this case. Far easier to allow the GOP to wallow in Arizona than Michigan.
DETROIT February 25, 2014 (AP)
Children need good parents, (click here) no matter their gender or sexual
orientation, a psychologist testified Tuesday at a trial challenging
Michigan's ban on gay marriage.
David Brodzinsky, an expert in adoption and foster care and a former
Rutgers University professor, said there are no "discernible
differences" in children who are raised by same-sex couples and youth
raised by heterosexuals.
"It's not the gender of the parents that's the key. It's the quality of
the parenting," said Brodzinsky, based in Oakland, Calif.
Two Detroit-area nurses who together are raising three adopted children
are seeking to overturn a Michigan constitutional amendment that
recognizes marriage only between a man and a woman. Jayne Rowse, 49, and
April DeBoer, 42, also are targeting a state law that prevents them
from jointly adopting each other's kids because they're not married....
