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SW Michigan
10:24 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Michigan GOP official in hot water over Facebook post

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Michigan’s Republican national committeeman says he doesn’t plan to resign because of Facebook posts about gays and lesbians. The Gongwer News Service says 21 GOP precinct delegates and other party leaders are urging David Agema to go. Their call came after the former state lawmaker put a post on Facebook suggesting that gays committed half of all murders in New York City.

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SW Michigan
4:01 pm
Tue March 19, 2013

Michigan tribe allows same-sex couple to marry

The marriage of Odawa tribesman Tim LaCroix to his spouse Gene Barfield on Friday marked the first legal same-sex marriage in Michigan. As Interlochen Public Radio reports the Odawa tribe is one of only three tribes to legalize gay marriage in the country.

1:14 pm
Thu March 7, 2013

Federal judge delays decision on Michigan's same-sex marriage ban

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Two women from suburban Detroit with three adopted children challenged amendment to state Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman said today he will wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide two gay marriage cases before ruling on a whether Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional "I think it’s worth the wait," Friedman said today in a hearing brought by two women who want joint custody of their three children. "I don't know what the Supreme Court is going to do."
7:21 am
Thu March 7, 2013

Challenge to Michigan's same-sex marriage ban to be heard by federal judge

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Michigan law prohibits joint-custody among unmarried couples. Voters approved a ban on same-sex marriage in 2004
A federal judge in Detroit is to hear arguments today in what could be a landmark case challenging Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage. April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse of Hazel Park are seeking to overturn the ban, which was written into the Michigan Constitution in 2004 after 59% of voters approved a ballot question limiting marriage to one man and one woman.

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