Update -- Thursday, 1:50 p.m.: Gov. Rick Snyder signed a package of bills Thursday allows faith-based adoption groups in Michigan to refuse to serve prospective parents who are same-sex or unmarried couples, the Detroit Free Press reports. Democrats said it amounted to government sanctioned discrimination.
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Original article:
The battle over religious and civil rights is playing out in Lansing. What the consequences may be is unclear.
On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled legislature sent bills to Gov. Rick Snyder to sign that would allow faith-based agencies to turn away gay and lesbian couples seeking state-supported adoptions, Gary Heinlein of The Detroit News reports:
The Legislature is sending bills to Gov. Rick Snyder that are narrower in scope than the religious freedom restoration act that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed last March, then revised amid a national furor over letting business owners deny services based on religious reasons.
But Michigan's Republican governor may be at a similar crossroads as he decides whether to sign them.
"Gov. Snyder has the opportunity not to repeat the mistakes of Indiana Gov. (Mike) Pence," said Marty Rouse, national field director for the 1.5-million-member Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C.
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