Have you been feeling threatened in any kind of way, lately? Has someone hurt your feelings and you now feel entitled to damages? Look no further than the “progressive” state of Michigan.
A hate speech bill has been passed by the state House and is now in the hands of the Senate, alarming not only conservatives and people of faith, but legal experts.
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The HB 4474 bill would replace Michigan’s existing Ethnic Intimidation Act, making it a hate crime to cause someone to “feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.” Under the bill’s framework, “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” have been included as classes protected against intimidation.
According to the bill, passed by Michigan’s Democrat-controlled House 59-50, anyone could listen to any speaker or read any paper or article and claim they’re being intimidated because their “perceived gender identity” is under attack, according to their feelings.
“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,” Professor Emeritus William Wagner, a former federal judge and legal counsel in the U.S. Senate, told The Daily Wire. “One merely needs to look at the scores of cases brought against schools, churches, businesses, and individuals around our country. Proponents use these laws to silence and financially cripple those who dare to adhere to a different viewpoint and oppose their agenda.”
The newest bill uses the term “harassment” without defining specifically what that refers to.
“’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,” the bill states.
This is a clear, threatening aim towards religious leaders, conservatives and everyone who believes in the objective truth that sex and gender are entirely correlated and there are only male and female genders in the human race.
The bill will likely become law if Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs in favor of it. Any opposition will have to rely on the courts.
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