{"id":3928,"date":"2023-02-24T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-02-24T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:59:20","slug":"now-is-not-the-time-this-is-much-too-divisive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"Now Is Not the Time \u2014 This Is Much Too Divisive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA382.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"404\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA382.jpg\" alt=\"Now Is Not the Time \u2014 This Is Much Too Divisive\" class=\"wp-image-3929\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA382.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA382-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Michigan, certain basic rights are codified by the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976. It specifically prohibits, &#8220;discriminatory practices, policies, and customs in the exercise of those rights based upon religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, or marital status.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course it took awhile to evolve for such a law to be created. Now, nearly 50 years later, our society has evolved further to consider additional rights \u2014 specifically, whether Elliot-Larsen includes protection from discrimination for LGBTQ Michiganders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has already worked its way through the judiciary, and last summer a 5-2 majority of the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the law does include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity. However, State Senator Jeremy Moss (D-Southfield) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/politics-government\/2023-02-21\/michigan-civil-rights-law-expansion-lined-up-for-senate-floor-vote\">sponsoring a bill to make that actual law<\/a>. It is now on the calendar for a formal vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previous efforts never made it out of Republican-controlled legislatures, often with the excuse that &#8220;it was not the right time and the issue was too divisive.&#8221; The cartoon is just a gentle reminder of how well that excuse holds up to history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Michigan, certain basic rights are codified by the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976. It specifically prohibits, &#8220;discriminatory practices, policies, and customs in the exercise of those rights based upon religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, or marital status.&#8221; Of course it took awhile to evolve for such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}