"Michigan AG Offers Double Dose Of Anti-Catholicism"

churchmilitant.com

"Michigan's first openly gay attorney general this month announced she's using her position to stifle Catholic and other religious groups. Dana Nessel, elected as Michigan's 54th attorney general in November, has halted all state funding for adoption and foster care agencies that refuse services to gay couples based on religious conscience grounds.

Nessel and her 'wife' Alanna Maguire are themselves raising twin boys.

Nessel also announced she was establishing a 'Hate Crimes Unit' (HCU) within the criminal division of the Michigan attorney general's office. The HCU will launch investigations and initiate prosecutions against groups or individuals that are motivated by 'a bias against a particular group.'

Nessel has indicated she'll focus on so-called hate groups listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a leftist group increasingly discredited as primarily interested in smearing pro-life, pro-family organizations, including Church Militant, recently added to its 'Hate List.'

Church Militant asked the Michigan attorney general's office whether this organization is under investigation.

'We don't disclose who we are and are not investigating,' a spokesman answered. 'However, it's important to note law enforcement agencies only investigate criminal acts.'

Nessel has made clear, however, that a crime could include an overall message of 'hate' and not necessarily individual criminal acts...

In a recent New Yorker piece, a former SPLC employee explained the group's modus operandi:

We were working with a group of dedicated and talented people, fighting all kinds of good fights, making life miserable for the bad guys. And yet, all the time, dark shadows hung over everything: the racial and gender disparities, the whispers about sexual harassment, the abuses that stemmed from the top-down management, and the guilt you couldn’t help feeling about the legions of donors who believed that their money was being used, faithfully and well, to do the Lord's work in the heart of Dixie. We were part of the con, and we knew it."