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Lee Chatfield made LGBT friends in Lansing, and they don’t see his resignation as a ‘win’
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 06, 2021
Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield talks to reporters at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019.Neil Blake | MLive.com
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After Dana Nessel won the Attorney General race in 2018, she got a note from incoming House Speaker Lee Chatfield congratulating her. She thought it was sarcastic.
Nessel had built her political brand as a tireless LGBT advocate and a progressive Democrat. Chatfield, R-Levering, was a conservative Republican who had gotten to Lansing by challenging an opponent who proposed extending civil rights to LGBT people.
COVID-19 aid, confidentiality agreements, guns and LGBT rights: The week in Michigan politics
Updated Mar 06, 2021;
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The push and pull over COVID-19 aid continues in Lansing, with the Legislature approving $4.2 billion in pandemic relief, but with strings attached that would limit the governor’s executive authority.
Meanwhile, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer this week faced questions about confidentiality clauses included in separation agreements with multiple state workers, including former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon, who resigned abruptly in January
The questions came as she announced easing building capacity limits for businesses and raising the number of people who can legally gather in Michigan.
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February 12, 2021
LANSING, MI - Today leaders of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights issued statements applauding the decision by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) affirming that the Fair Housing Act provides protection from discrimination for the LGBTQ community.
HUD’s decision means that the Fair Housing Act provision that prohibits discrimination on the basis of “sex” includes protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
“The HUD decision echoes the call made by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission in May of 2018, when we issued an interpretive statement declaring that the word “sex” in Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act includes protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,” said Stacie Clayton, Chair of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. “It is a position the Commission has held for well over a decade: that LGBT