Whitmer's LGBTQ directive could face lawsuit on religious grounds
The head of the State Bar’s Religious Liberty section is seeking to file a lawsuit that would challenge Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s new executive directive barring LGBTQ discrimination, according to an email obtained by the Michigan Advance.
Tracey Lee, a West Bloomfield family law and nonprofit attorney, wrote to a group of lawyers encouraging them to “identify business owners who receive state funding in Michigan and are willing to do a pre-emptive challenge against Governor Whitmer’s executive directive.”
Lee specifically compared the effort to the recent Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled that a Colorado baker was entitled to refuse service to a same-sex couple seeking a celebratory wedding cake.
It’s possible that a Michigan suit could become the next test case in the national fight against LGBTQ rights on religious grounds, although equality advocates told the Advance they feel confident Whitmer’s directive would withstand a legal challenge.
Read more: https://www.michiganadvance.com/2019/01/22/whitmers-lgbtq-directive-could-face-lawsuit-on-religious-grounds/
