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William769

(55,124 posts)
Fri May 18, 2012, 03:02 PM May 2012

Michigan Lawmakers Refuse to Sign Award for Lesbian

A lesbian who was supposed to get one of the Kalamazoo YWCA's annual "Women of Achievement" awards got slighted Thursday, and now LGBT rights leaders want to know what happened.

Sarah Stangl was one of several honorees given state proclamations as part of their award. Each certificate was signed by a cast of Michigan lawmakers. But some refused to sign the proclamation for Stangl, who was being honored in part for her work as the former coordinator for LGBT Student Services at Western Michigan University.

Refusing to sign were House Speaker Jase Bolger, state Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker, State Rep. Margaret O’Brien. All are Republicans, but so is Gov. Rick Snyder, who signed the proclamation.

"If this is some sort of statement, I think it's petty," Zachary Bauer, executive director for the Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center, told the Kalamazoo Gazette.

http://www.advocate.com/politics/2012/05/18/michigan-lawmakers-refuse-sign-award-lesbian

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Michigan Lawmakers Refuse to Sign Award for Lesbian (Original Post) William769 May 2012 OP
Stay classy, GOP assholes catbyte May 2012 #1
Yeah. More and More I know why I left Michigan years ago. RetiredTrotskyite May 2012 #4
You're being too harsh. Wait Wut May 2012 #2
Petty beyurslf May 2012 #3
What a surprise. Assholes. n/t Fearless May 2012 #5

catbyte

(34,170 posts)
1. Stay classy, GOP assholes
Fri May 18, 2012, 03:02 PM
May 2012


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RetiredTrotskyite

(1,507 posts)
4. Yeah. More and More I know why I left Michigan years ago.
Sat May 19, 2012, 11:49 AM
May 2012

So petty. Even the bloody Rethuglican governor signed it. Assholes.

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
2. You're being too harsh.
Fri May 18, 2012, 03:07 PM
May 2012

They are Republicans, after all. It's likely they don't know how to spell their own names. That and the fact that they're bigtoed assholes with no souls.

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