Senator Gretchen Whitmer speaks out against an anti-bullying bill, the so-called "Matt's Safe School Law", named after a gay teenager bullied to the point of suicide. The bill makes an explicit exception for "statement[s] of a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of a school employee, school volunteer, pupil, or a pupil and parent or guardian", thus protecting the homophobic abuse for religious reasons (and what other are there?). Only the Republican party could come up with an anti-bullying bill so counterproductive.

Edit: a petition to take out the passage allowing religious bullying (a passage added at the last minute btw): http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-the-michigan-house-to-pass-an-anti-bullying-law-that-matters

More on this, showing the disgusting hypocrisy of the religious right: http://michiganmessenger.com/53702/senate-passes-license-to-bully-legislation