Rep-elect Courser calls for lame-duck Speaker's ouster over gay rights

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Tea party darling Todd Courser, now a state representative-elect, wasted little time going on the offensive against his Republican colleagues.
What’s more, he’s calling for the ouster of House Speaker Jase Bolger — who only has about nine session days left in his reign — if the speaker pursues a measure that would prevent discrimination against gays.
In a message to supporters over the weekend, the Lapeer Republican said GOP House members preparing for the lame-duck session “should have anticipated the lengths these RINO, Democrat-lite politicians would go to enact their statist, secular agenda.”

That’s a reference to the proposed amendment to the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act that would include sexual preference and gender identity among the factors that protect individuals from discrimination.
LGBT activists are not happy with the wording, which has the support of Gov. Snyder, because it does not spell out protections for the transgender population.

Courser sees things differently:

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“It is an egregious offense that they are trampling on the religious liberties endowed by our creator and enshrined in our state and federal constitutions. The current ‘Republican’ speaker of the House, emboldened by the small fortune he has procured from LGBT activists, is pushing to bring the expansion of Elliot-Larsen to the floor for a vote, despite the objections of the majority of his caucus.”

Courser’s low opinion of Bolger apparently was not altered by a separate Bolger bill that would allow businesses to use their religious beliefs as justification to refuse service to same-sex couples. This “license to discriminate” bill, opponents insist, would water down some of the public accommodation protections offered in the updated version of Elliot-Larsen.

Courser is not impressed by that argument:

“If the Republican speaker continues to ignore the will of the voters and the principles of the caucus that elected him, unprecedented action must be taken! Conservatives must call for his removal and require the immediate implementation of the ‘Hastert rule.’

“If this is unsuccessful, the caucus must turn their backs on their rogue leader and walk out, refusing to vote on any other piece of legislation during lame duck. If the speaker wishes to pass a Democratic agenda with Democratic votes and ignore the principles of the Republican caucus that elected him, let him look out at the chamber and see his true allies — liberals and statists seeking an agenda beholden to Big Government secularism.”

With that, his email message was not complete. Courser, who takes office in January, offered a parting shot:
“… To allow the Speaker to act as a rogue champion of the liberal left would be laughable if it wasn’t so obscenely offensive. I will gladly walk arm-in-arm with any conservatives willing to show their backbone, and other relevant anatomical parts, in standing up to this abasement of our constitutional liberties.”

If Courser wasn’t so xenophobic and so determined to send illegal immigrants back to Mexico, I think he might have used the word “cajones” in that final sentence.