Gay marriage vote may come to Michigan in 2016

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Detroit Free Press • Jun 10, 2013

During adoption rights battle, couple works to have Michigan's gay marriage ban declared unconstitutional

Hazel Park mother April DeBoer said she and her lesbian partner are challenging Michigan's same-sex marriage law not for themselves, but to protect the rights of their kids. DeBoer and partner Jayne Rowse decided to take the battle they're already fighting in U.S. District Court in Detroit one step further today. They amended their complaint in front of Judge Bernard A. Friedman that asks for the...

Detroit Free Press • Sep 7, 2012

Domestic partner benefits ban signed; ACLU promises lawsuit

Many government employers in Michigan will be barred from providing health care benefits to the domestic partners of public employees under legislation signed by Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday. Snyder said the prohibition will not apply to employees of the state public universities or to state government employees. The measure does apply to municipal and school employees, and to homosexual and het...

Detroit Free Press • Jan 2, 2012

Michigan voters shifting views on gay couples

In what Glengariff Group pollster Richard Czuba describes as a seismic shift in public opinion, even support for equal marriage has nearly doubled since a similar poll in 2004. That poll was conducted before voters approved an amendment to the Michigan Constitution restricting marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman....

Detroit Free Press • Jun 7, 2009