Posted on 01/30/2017 6:40:48 PM PST by drewh
Donald Trump is reportedly planning an executive order that would allow LGBT discrimination, rolling back laws protecting gay and transgender people from businesses or social services and putting a ban on gay couples adopting — but gay rights groups are ready to fight back.
Though Trump has yet to officially unveil the LGBT executive order, several sources have reported that it is ready to be signed this week. Citing sources close to the White House, LGBTQ Nation reported that the order would “allow for discrimination in a number of areas,” including workplace discrimination.
The report went on to cite some specific parts of the LGBT executive order, including portions that would effectively ban gay couples from adopting.
“From what we’ve heard, the executive order could be far-reaching, and could include: making taxpayer funds available for discrimination against LGBTQ people in social services; allow federally funded adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ parents; eliminate non-discrimination protections in order to make it possible to fire federal employers and contractors based on their sexual orientation or gender identity; and allow federal employees to refuse to serve people based on the belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman, and that gender is an immutable characteristic set at birth, which would impact a broad range of federal benefits.” The report went on to claim that Donald Trump’s LGBT executive order would be packaged as a “religious freedom” bill, modeled off Indiana’s controversial Religious Restoration Act, signed into law by Mike Pence. That law gave leeway to businesses in choosing who they serve and they deny service.
Though Trump’s LGBT executive order has yet to be introduced, some human rights groups are already speaking out against it. The Human Rights Campaign issued a statement to LGBTQ Nation, calling the rumors “deeply troubling.”
“We already know that he is willing to target and marginalize at-risk communities for his perceived political gain,” JoDee Winterhof, the Human Rights Campaign’s Senior Vice President for Policy and Political Affairs, told the outlet. “As the President and his team plan their next steps, we want to make one thing clear: we won’t give one inch when it comes to defending equality, whether it is a full-on frontal assault or an attack under the guise of religion. Mike Pence should know that better than anyone given his track record in Indiana.”
There is still the potential that Trump’s LGBT executive order could be held beyond its expected signing date. Trump’s order last week banning immigration from a group of Muslim-majority nations was met with widespread protests and court challenges from human and civil rights groups. Even former President Barack Obama spoke out against it on Monday, encouraging protesters to stand up against these actions.
“The president [Obama] fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion,” a spokesman for Obama said (via the Guardian).
It’s likely that any executive order rolling back protection against LGBT discrimination would be met with an equally loud protest, and some groups are already preparing to take action if it is signed.
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OMG!!! GO TRUMP GO!!!
My my my......
So many things for the Democrats to worry about.
What they TRIED to say in their breathless freak-out is that Trump MAY issue an EO that says the US won’t fund any agency that allows homos to adopt kids.
Agree. More important things to do IMO. I think this is fake news.
Fake News but if not then fine by me. If people want this kind of country then pass a law through the necessary branches of government otherwise it should be a states rights issue. This isn’t that hard.
The only problem with that is because it puts the welfare of the child before the feeeeeeeeeeeeelings of the homo crowd.
How dare he!
I’m going to call horse hockey on this one. Sounds like fake news.
Perhaps it’s even fake news.
fake news? I doubt this one.
I’m with you. This sounds fake.
#fakenews!
George Clooney will be beside himself. He has already called for Trump to resign ... but he didn’t . HAHAHAHA!
I think it sounds fake. Based on what Trump has said in the past, he may push something about not forcing businesses to service customers demanding something against the business owner’s religious beliefs,which I hope he does, but the rest of this sounds like more provocation by leftist agitators.
This is such bollocks. The President does not have the authority to tell private agencies what policies they can set in regards to adoption. He does not have the power to dictate to state agencies. I do not know of federal agencies that handle adoptions.
Misinformation like this is meant to stir up radical protests.
If the news comes out with an EO that goes outside the auspices of the Executive, it is fake, by definition.
Sounds like Fake News to me
wish it were true, but this article is pure crap.
I think it is child abuse to place a child with queer couples. My GOD, what that poor child grow up watching? I have always thought that. Homosexuality is a mental illness. Where else would we allow mentally ill people engaging in sexual perversions, that I will not be allowed to describe here,to have possession of little children?
I doubt the veracity of this article but I can only pray for those children that it IS TRUE!!
I don’t know. Give ‘em so many things to protest at one time they don’t know which to do.
I am not sure. I would have thought that before I have seen Trump in action, but...I have concluded Trump does not operate in a linear fashion as most politicians appear to do (note that I said “appear”)
In my opinion, it is important for many politicians to “appear” to be operating in a linear fashion, and there are probably many reasons for that.
But Trump appears not to be interested in conducting business that way.
He operates like a successful businessman. He seems quite content to whack a hornet’s nest with a stick, and while the hornets go mad, he calmly walks over to the next nest, and gives it a whack. Then walks to the next one.
After a while, he makes his way back to the first nest while everyone is fixated on the other nests, and gives it a few more wallops, until the next falls to the ground.
And so on.
I think it is his lack of “need” to be liked. He is fine living with himself. This is rare in our political world.
Just my opinion.
If taken across state lines it becomes a federal issue.
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