New Bills Add LGBTQ Protections to Michigan’s Elliot Larsen Civil Rights Act Urge Key Senators to Support SB 351 Urge Key Rep’s to Support HB 4688 BACKGROUND On June 4th, Rep. Jon Hoadley (D-Kalamazoo) and, on June 5th, Senator Jeremy Moss introduced bills to amend Michigan’s main civil rights law, the Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act, to protect the LGBTQ community. The new amendments would protect people based on their “sexual identity or expression” (who they are) and their “sexual orientation” (who they love). The Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act, passed in 1976, makes it illegal to discriminate in matters of housing, public accommodations and employment based religion, race, color, national origin, sex marital status, age, height, weight or family status. Michigan’s Civil Rights Commission, in 2018, […]