{"id":3017,"date":"2020-10-20T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:40:54","slug":"michigan-ag-to-appeal-ruling-that-allows-businesses-to-discriminate-against-same-sex-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3017","title":{"rendered":"Michigan AG to appeal ruling that allows businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Judge Christopher Murray\u00a0ruled\u00a0that Michigan\u2019s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) provides protection for individuals based on their gender identity \u2014 but not based on their sexual orientation .<\/p>\n<p>Signed into law in 1977,\u00a0ELCRA\u00a0prohibits discrimination on the basis of \u201creligion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, or marital status\u201d in employment, housing, education, and access to public accommodations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) interpreted that \u201csex\u201d as defined by ELCRA included protections based on sexual orientation \u2014 which allowed the department to\u00a0 begin processing complaints of discrimination against two businesses: Rouch World, an events venue and\u00a0Uprooted Electrolysis, a hair removal business.<\/p>\n<p>Rouch World declined to host a same-sex wedding in 2019, and Uprooted Electrolysis denied service to a trans woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, Judge Christopher Murray\u00a0ruled\u00a0that Michigan\u2019s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) provides protection for individuals based on their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.4 - 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