{"id":2103,"date":"2014-12-09T07:02:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T12:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2014-12-09T07:03:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T12:03:47","slug":"lame-duck-outrages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Lame Duck Outrages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MLMG149.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2104\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MLMG149.jpg\" alt=\"Lame Duck Outrages\" width=\"560\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MLMG149.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MLMG149-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/12\/MLMG149.jpg&amp;name=Lame Duck Outrages...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>December 7, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So there was this idea that the Michigan legislature could\u00a0<a title=\"'Historic' gay rights hearing ends without vote on Michigan anti-discrimination proposals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/lansing-news\/index.ssf\/2014\/12\/historic_hearing_on_gay_rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">expand the state\u2019s anti-discrimination to include protections for gay residents<\/a>, and maybe even\u00a0the transgender community \u2014 straightforward stuff that is already there for race and gender (like you can&#8217;t get fired from your job because of your sexual orientation). Politics being what they are, the best\u00a0chance for doing the right thing is now while the Michigan legislature is in a lame duck session, so some politicians who would never want to be seen as siding with the LGBT community could vote for it. Well, it is not likely to happen. Or even get out of committee. The most hypocritical thing here (and there is lots to choose from) is being\u00a0against lame duck legislation if you don&#8217;t like it, but a happy shrug if you do. Two years ago, the law making Michigan a right-to-work state passed in a lame duck session. What&#8217;s a more basic right to work than not to get fired indiscriminately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News December 7, 2014 So there was this idea that the Michigan legislature could\u00a0expand the state\u2019s anti-discrimination to include protections for gay residents, and maybe even\u00a0the transgender community \u2014 straightforward stuff that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}