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Bullying/Hate Crimes do not make the State of the State
By User from Oak Park, MI - Jan 29th, 2008 at 11:41 pm EST
Michigan is facing some pretty serious challenges and today's State of the State address was clearly designed to talk about the future of our economy, education and access to health care. We were very impressed with the bi-partisan tone and the commitment to diversifying the economy of our great state, but issues of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community were noticeably absent.

Governor Granholm has been a visible and strong supporter of anti-bullying legislation (Matt's Safe Schools Law-HB 4162) which passed the Michigan House last year. However, that bill is now languising in the Senate Education Committee even though it has more co-sponsors than votes needed to pass the bill. We were hoping Governor Granholm would use the State of the State address to urge Senator leaders to give this bill a hearing, but there was none of that tonight.   Read More »
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