LANSING, Michigan, June 4 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following statement by Chair Lavora Barnes in support of legislation being introduced by Michigan State Sen. Jeremy Moss, D-Southfield and Michigan State Reps. Jon Hoadley, D-Kalamazoo and Tim Sneller, D-Burton, that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act as protected classes in Michigan:

"Nothing is more necessary to the progress of a people than equality.

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