LANSING, MI (MPRN)-- The Michigan Civil Rights Commission plans to ignore a recent opinion from the state’s attorney general on LGBTQ rights.
In May the Commission decided to include LGBTQ individuals as members of a protected class under Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. Last week Attorney General Bill Schuette issued an opinion that state law does not protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination.
But the Commission’s director says it is not bound by the opinion of the Attorney General, so the Commission says it will continue investigating complaints of housing and job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.