How some Michigan Muslims united with extremist Republicans against LGBTQ+ rights

How some Michigan Muslims united with extremist Republicans against LGBTQ+ rights
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By Steve Neavling on Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 4:00 am


(Detroit Metro Times) Standing at a microphone inside a packed school board meeting in Dearborn in October 2022, Brian Stone wasn’t sure he’d make it out alive.

The 36-year-old wrote a will, put an emergency contact card in his pocket, and told his partner he loved him.

Behind him, a furious mob of conservative Muslims shouted gay slurs, pumped their fists, and booed.

As a gay man who served his country in the Navy, Stone was not going to stay quiet amid the rising bigotry in his hometown. Hundreds of conservative Muslims and Christians packed Stout Middle School to demand the Dearborn School Board remove six books containing LGBTQ+ content. ..............(more)

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