Tagged mike bowers

Former U.S. Justice Department official: HB 757 ‘would lead to real harm to many people’

Meet Joe Whitley, this year’s Michael Bowers. Bowers, you’ll recall, is the former Georgia Attorney General that Georgia Equality hired last year to do an analysis of SB 129, state Sen. Josh McKoon’s (R-Columbu...

Punches and counter punches: A timeline of Georgia’s ‘religious freedom’ bill fight

The battle over Georgia's so-called “religious freedom” bills began relatively quietly, but the introduction of a surprise opponent to the anti-LGBT bills and a jagged momentum shift back and forth over the fin...

The reboot of Mike Bowers: Longtime Georgia LGBT lightning rod re-emerges with a new chapter

Mike Bowers is not one for introspection. Try to get the 73-year-old West Point-educated, U.S. Air Force veteran to open up about how exactly he went from being the most vilified person in the state's LGBT hist...

Log Cabin Republicans jump into ‘religious freedom’ bill fight

The Georgia Chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans denounced the so-called “religious freedom” bills being advanced in the Georgia legislature, saying they would be a license to discriminate against same-sex coup...

Republican-on-Republican crime: State reps fire back at Bowers on ‘religious freedom’ criticism

Well, that escalated quickly. We asked former Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers at a press conference this morning whether he had heard from state Rep. Sam Teasley, state Sen. Josh McKoon or any other Rep...