Attorney General Mike Cox
I'd like to dedicate Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools" to the chain of people who worked so hard to make Attorney General Mike Cox this week's creep.
Though Cox gets the top honor for issuing an anti-family opinion on domestic partner benefits in Michigan, were there an acceptance speech he'd be sure to thank Republican State Rep. Jack Hoogendyk and City Commissioner Mary Balkema, both of Kalamazoo.
It was Balkema who was so troubled by the idea of a small number of families receiving domestic partner benefits in Kalamazoo – especially in the wake of Proposal "it's only about marriage (wink, wink)" 2 – she went to Rep. Hoogendyk for help. Hoogendyk, you might recall, was so troubled in 2003 about UofM's "How to be Gay" course he submitted a bill that would have let the legislature weed out "the homosexual agenda" from public university class offerings. He was also a supporter of the so-called marriage amendment and is currently on a statewide tour with that enormous Ten Commandments monument that caused all of the trouble for Alabama State Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore. Separation of church and state? Come on, that's so 1789. This month, Hoogendyk asked Attorney General Cox for an opinion on DP benefits for employees in Kalamazoo and the result is Cox's anti-family ruling saying Proposal 2 means that real families will be stripped of benefits they depend on – and that Michigan's voters were duped.
According to Sean Kosofsky, director of policy for the Triangle Foundation, Cox's ruling is in line with his poor record on the our community's issues. "Mike Cox has consistently taken positions that will harm the GLBT community," said Kosofsky. "He wanted Proposal 2 on the ballot which put our fundamental right to a family up to a vote of our neighbors. He demanded that Governor Granholm's executive order banning anti-gay discrimination did not apply to his office, even though it did. And now he continues with his troika of anti-gay decisions by claiming health insurance is akin to marriage. Mike Cox has been a colossal disappointment to the GLBT community."
By all means, contact Mike Cox's office with calls and e-mails expressing your disagreement with this opinion: [email protected] or 877-765-8388.
While you're at it, contact Rep. Hoogendyk, too: 877-347-8061 or [email protected].
Creep of the Week: Attorney General Mike Cox
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