 ccrp poll amending elliotlarsen civil right act  new poll overview michigan currently does not have language in the elliottlarsen civil rights act that specifically protects individuals from being fired or denied housing for their gender identity twentynine governmental units in michigan including delta township in eaton county have adopted ordinances that would make this type of discrimination a crime the issues related to the ordinances center around gay rights and religious rights with both sides claiming that their rights will we violated if a law is or is not passed gay rights advocates feel that if the law is not passed their rights will not be protected while the religious community feels their right to practice their beliefs and uphold the tenets of their religion as an individual and as an employer would be violated an example of what they believe is that a catholic school should not be forced to hire an openly homosexual man as a teacher or coach new poll question should michigan pass a law that would define lgbt as a protected class in the elliotlarsen civil rights act yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link should michigan pass a law that would define lgbt as a protected class in the elliotlarsen civil rights act   to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question should michigan pass a law that would deny promotion from 3rd grade to 4th grade based on meap reading test scores yes 50 no 44 undecided 6 two comments were made on this poll comment 1 3rd grade students if we can get them to read better it will cost us less in the long run the schools will say we must give them more money so we can do a better job of teaching what did they do with the money we already gave them we could just pass them to the next grade and so on until they graduate the 12 grade we would just have a larger bunch of dummies my grandson goat a f in algebra and his father made him take the class over again my grandson said he would still get credit for the algebra class with and f grade al comment 2 consequences for not not passing 3rd grade reading meap or not no we shouldn t hold back 3rd graders who don t pass the 3rd grade reading meap what pray tell are grades and exams for if you think not just keep moving them forward until very quickly they are in deep water and can t swim and will never swim reading is fundamental there should also be consequences for teachers whose students can t read and schools whose teachers can t teach students to read flunk them fire them close them down   all emails addresses  