The Michigan House just recently passed a law that could make using a person’s wrong pronouns a felony, fineable up to $10,000. Since the news, and former judge and TV personality Joe Brown is calling the new legislation an “abomination.”
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Michigan’s recent bill is targeting those who harass or intimidate someone by misgendering them and using the wrong pronouns. Michigan’s state House of Representatives passed a bill called HB 4474, which criminalizes causing someone to feel threatened by words.
Under the new bill, it is reported that offenders are “guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or by a fine of not more than $10,000.”
The bill also states, “Intimidate means a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable individual to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.”
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It also specifically addresses “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” as protected classes. It adds, “Gender identity or expression means having or being perceived as having a gender-related self-identity or expression whether or not associated with an individual’s assigned sex at birth.”
Meanwhile, critics of the bill are claiming that it violates the First Amendment.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus William Wagner told The Daily Wire, “Make no mistake about it. Those advocating for this legislation will wield these policies as a weapon capable of destroying conservative expression or viewpoints grounded in the sacred.”
Also, State Rep. Angela Rigas critiqued, “The state of Michigan is now explicitly allowing the gender delusion issue to be used as a ‘protected class.’ This opens up numerous issues when it comes to the courts and the continued weaponization of the system against conservatives. We saw similar concerns when they wanted to pass blocks on ‘conversion’ therapy. It seems Dems want to be in the business of telling people how to think.”
Plus, former TV Judge Joe Brown reacted to the news and is not a fan. He took to Twitter and shared a headline that read, ‘Michigan House passes bill where using wrong pronouns ≈ a felony, fineable up to $10,000.‘ Brown wrote, “This type of abomination must be stopped. This is so obscenely contrary to American 1st A Law that the only fit ‘Adjectives’ to describe it are profane.”
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When does this stupid shit stop!
I am a woman, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother…A daughter and one of 8 sisters!
To quote my mother “Were all going to hell in a handbag!