ANTI-GAY COVEN
Political observers have come to expect some off-the-wall stuff from Michigan state Representative Josh Schriver, a Republican who hails from Oxford and represents the 66th District which includes the northern tier of Oakland County (Addison, Brandon and Oakland townships) and two communities in Macomb County. He brags about being the most far-right conservative in the House, and one that serves God rather than the people who elected him. So it came as no surprise in February that he was joined by a Republican House group of similar Christian nationalists – Joseph Fox, Steve Carra, Gregory Alexander, Jame DeSana, Jason Woolford and fellow Oakland Rep. Matt Maddock (Milford, Highland, White Lake, parts of Commerce and Springfield) – in pushing a resolution calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Schriver was first elected to the House in 2022 and has gotten his share of headlines for extreme positions that blend pseudo Judeo-Christian values with white supremacy and nationalism, like his online reposting of a replacement conspiracy item in his first term, for example, which cost him his staff and committee positions as punishment. He and Maddock have been in lockstep on other hard right legislative proposals in the past. As for Trump-acolyte Maddock, he is most noted for calling to impeach Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and his election denier work, including joining a federal lawsuit to overturn the 2020 voting results. In 2022, he was banned from the Republican caucus until 2023 for violating confidentiality rules. The gay marriage resolution is not expected to go anywhere in the House.
