Catholic group files lawsuit against Michigan Attorney General re. SPLC hate lies

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The "See you in court" is supposed to impress us and maybe the threat of a lawsuit used to be a real threat, but no more because the courts and judges and prosecuting attorneys are corrupt from the top to the bottom.

Thomas More law firm has for over 15 years been filing many lawsuits for Christian / Catholic / conservative plaintiffs' interests. I never heard of them winning even one of the maybe over a thousand lawsuits.

But I guess we have to still go through the motions of the USA having just legal system and the "rule of law."

This short video is interesting to listen to because it explains all the tricks involved Michigan Attorney General agency playing very dishonest and most likely illegal games in refusing to hand over FOIA records to Church Militant entity.




...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDBqD4Ehx0o...

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at 1:57

Michael Voris referred to the

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel

as a "Jewish Lesbian"

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First time I have heard Michael Voris use the "Jewish" descriptor but important step forward in good reporting for Church Militant.

If our legal system worked like it is supposed to it would not be necessary to file a law suit to get records but even if the lawsuit goes no where or is lost, it will at least show everyone what a farce the Michigan and USA legal system is AND it will shine the light of truth on the Southern Poverty Law Center and their "hate crimes" accusations for people expressing their beliefs, especially beliefs of a Christian moral perspective.

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"Michigan attorney general using secretive ‘hate crime unit’ to harass pro-marriage group"
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“Watching, listening, tracking, and compiling secret dossiers on dissidents until they are finally accused and prosecuted — these are the police-state tactics one might associate with an authoritarian regime in a World War II movie.

Yet, these are the very methods the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) has found are being used by Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel acting in concert with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

On February 19, 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a notorious and discredited radical left-wing anti-Christian organization, published its annual Hate Map report, which listed 31 ‘hate’ groups operating in Michigan in 2018. Listed in that group as ‘ANTI-LGBT’ was Church Militant, a nonprofit Michigan-based religious media organization that advocates the traditional Catholic belief that marriage as instituted by God is for one man and one woman.

Three days later, on February 22, 2019, a disturbing joint news release by Attorney General Nessel and the director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights was issued referencing and linking to SPLC’s Hate Map. The joint release contained Nessel’s promise to establish a hate crimes unit to fight hate crimes and hate groups that have been allowed to proliferate in Michigan.

Nessel’s spokeswoman, Kelly Rossman-McKinney, noted that SPLC is a good place to start when investigating hate and bias.

The director of the Civil Rights Department told a Detroit News reporter that the department is creating a database which would document hate and bias incidents that don’t rise to the level of a crime or civil infraction.

Additional damning evidence of A.G. Nessel’s hostility toward traditional marriage was provided by the findings of chief judge Robert Jonker of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. In a published 2019 legal opinion, Buck v. Gordon, Judge Jonker found that Nessel attempted to stop St. Vincent Catholic Charities from performing adoption and foster placement services because it professes the Catholic belief on marriage. Judge Jonker said past statements by Nessel ‘raise a strong inference of hostility toward a religious viewpoint.’

Jonker concluded that ‘St. Vincent was targeted based on its religious belief, and it was Defendant Nessel who targeted it.’

Concerned that A.G. Nessel is continuing to weaponize the attorney general’s office to suppress religious beliefs in traditional marriage by threats of investigation and prosecution, the Thomas More Law Center, a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed a request for records under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Using sham excuses, Nessel refused to supply crucial records that would shed light on her use of her law enforcement powers to target organizations that opposed her personal ideology supporting same-sex ‘marriage.’

TMLC filed a lawsuit in the Michigan Court of Claims on January 9, 2020, against Nessel for her refusal to comply with Michigan’s FOIA.

Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of TMLC, which represents Church Militant and its founder and president, Michael Voris, commented: ‘This lawsuit is about the right of the people to know what their public officials are doing. We believe that Attorney General Nessel targeted Church Militant because of its stance on traditional marriage as she had done in the case involving St. Vincent.’

Continued Thompson: ‘The combination of actions by the Attorney General Nessel, the Department of Civil Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center have a chilling effect on the freedom of speech and religion not only of Church Militant, but every religious group in Michigan that stands for traditional marriage.’

Astonishingly, Nessel’s office admitted in its response to Thomas More Law Center’s FOIA request that:

It had no policies in place to safeguard the constitutional rights of individuals who committed no crime but are being investigated for espousing traditional marriage.

It has no clear definitions of ‘bias incidents’ or ‘hate crimes’ against LGBT persons that are backed up by Michigan statutes or court decisions.

The A.G.’s office failed in its FOIA response to provide any clear policies or parameters governing the prosecution of hate crimes. Nor does it have a clear definition of what constitutes a ‘hate group.’

Without policies to adequately guide the actions of the Hate Crime Unit, it is free to roam about launching secret investigations against any organization based solely on the fact that it supports traditional marriage.

Consequently, it was easy for the attorney general’s office to claim that Church Militant was under investigation to avoid turning over records and to escape public scrutiny.

Nessel has single-handedly turned the Attorney General’s Office into an instrument of thought control by intimidation, using its law enforcement powers to police the speech of Michigan residents.

‘One of her primary goals is to suppress the religious definition of marriage that does not conform to her opinions on same-sex marriage,’ Thompson said.

Church Militant, headquartered in Ferndale, Michigan, reports on current events around the world…”