Sat Jul 8, 2023 – 4:37 pm EDT
LANSING, Michigan (LifeSiteNews) — The Michigan House of Representatives late last month passed HB4474, a bill that if signed into law will criminalize as hate speech any criticism against transgender ideology that makes a person ostensibly feel “frightened.”
In an attempt to silence critics and curtail First Amendment freedom of speech protections, transgender advocates in the Democrat-controlled Michigan legislature are seeking legal criminalization of opposition to sexual mutilation and chemical sterilization of children as discriminatory “hate speech.”
The bill passed the Michigan House in a 59-50 vote and is likely to pass in the Democrat-controlled Senate before reaching liberal Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk.
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The new bill broadens the definition of a “hate crime” to action by which a person “intimidates or harasses another individual; causes bodily injury or severe mental anguish to another individual; uses force or violence on another individual; damages, destroys, or defaces any real, personal, digital, or online property of another individual; or threatens, by word or act, to do any of the above-described actions, if the person, regardless of the
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