You keep finding these fake news gems.
Posted on 02/03/2017 11:45:29 AM PST by drewh
Members of the religious right with ties to the Trump administration say they have been lead to believe that some changes will still be coming.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump helped lead the charge to scuttle a draft executive order that would have overturned Obama-era enforcements of LGBT rights in the workplace, ultiple sources with knowledge of the situation said.
A draft executive order on LGBT rights — which outlines how to roll back former president Barack Obama’s protections and expand legal exemptions based on religious beliefs — has been circulating among journalists and worried progressive groups this week.
But two sources close to Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who have in the past been supporters of gay rights, said the young couple were both in favor of putting out a clear statement from the president, promising to uphold the 2014 Obama executive order and stopping the momentum for the turnaround in its tracks.
On Tuesday night, the White House released a statement noting that “President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election.”
“The executive order signed in 2014, which protects employees from anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination while working for federal contractors, will remain intact at the direction of President Donald J. Trump,” the statement continued.
White House officials downplayed the turnaround, suggesting that the draft LGBT executive order was never going to reach Trump’s desk for his signature. They described it as one of some 200 executive orders that were contemplated during the transition — some by outside groups, some by transition officials — and that it was never intended to become law, even without Kushner or anyone else pushing back on it.
“Some are real, some are drafts of things people like and some are ideas people from outside have suggested,” a White House official said, describing the executive orders that have been written.
But the statement did not quash the chatter completely. Members of the religious right with ties to the Trump administration said they have been lead to believe that some changes will still be coming. “I think they’re going to address the conflict that exists currently, which would preclude religious organizations from contracting with the federal government,” Tony Perkins, CEO of the Family Research Council, said in an interview. “I feel confident that they have an appreciation of religious freedom, and I’m pretty certain they’re going to address it. I’m talking to people in the Trump administration, and I know they understand the importance of this.”
Perkins said that Vice President Mike Pence has been involved and is “clearly sensitive to this.” If so, the fight over LGBT rights could reveal a fault line between Pence, an evangelical Catholic who as governor of Indiana signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015; and Kushner, who is Jewish and whose social circle includes socially progressive New Yorkers.
“There are some in Trump’s family that have some views on these things,” said a source close to the discussions. “That’s where the decision is ultimately being made.”
Democratic groups like the nonprofit Center for American Progress are also continuing to fight against changes they expect could still be coming. “If accurate, this executive order would sanction sweeping taxpayer-funded discrimination against LGBT people, women, and their families in blatant violation of Trump’s promise to ‘protect our LGBT citizens,’” said Winnie Stachelberg, executive vice president for external affairs at CAP. Stachelberg said the White House statement left open a channel to broaden religious exemptions that prevent gay and transgender individuals from getting health care, or fostering a child.
“There are a lot of ideas that are being floated out,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said at the briefing on Thursday when asked about the LGBT executive order. “Part of it is, the president does all the time, he asks for input, he asks for ideas, and on a variety of subjects there are staffing procedures that go on where people have a thought or an idea and it goes through the process.”
Some of the confusion stems from how the executive orders have been written. “It wouldn’t be surprising to me if there were lots of documents floating around that people wrote, where they thought the administration might go,” said James Carafano, a vice president at the Heritage Foundation, who advised the Trump transition on foreign policy issues.
“This president’s number one priority is demonstrating to the people that got him elected that he is doing the people’s business,” said Carafano.
But Carafano warned that an LGBT executive order would not make sense right now, because it’s not in line with any campaign promise made by Trump — the first Republican nominee to feature an openly gay speaker at his convention. “For them to put out an executive order that didn’t try and match up with the priorities that he campaigned on would be an unforced error,” said Carafano.
Fake news
Who here thinks Trump, the only candidate who held up a rainbow flag given to him by supporters at a rally, was going to roll back LGBTQ rights??
Who here thinks that Trump, who got a standing ovation at eh RNC convention for his support of support towards the LGBTQ community, and then thanked the audience “for cheering what I just said”, was going to roll back LGBTQ rights??
I sure didn’t.
I mean Milo Yiannopoulos is gay, but he’s OUR gay!!
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Poisonous traitors!
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me too, and getting to choose which genders goes into our own public bathrooms would be nice
Fake news Friday.
Well, Donald Trump (prior to becoming Candidate Trump) was registered as a democrat for many years and has supported many liberal candidates and positions. In fact, it wasn’t until 2009 that he registered as a Republican. I have cars that are older that that.
Does that mean that President Trump is going to govern as a liberal - no. Does it mean that I will be suspicious of any action or lack of action that seems to support the liberal agenda - yes.
Currently, I view the vast majority of his actions as positive. If he keeps it up, I will likely vote for him for his reelection should he decide to run. That is despite not voting for him in the last election because he sounded like another RINO who recently “saw the light”.
You keep finding these fake news gems.
its a talent on loan from GOD! :)
Why would I believe any press?
If he does not say much about queers and destroys the Johnson Amendment, I would say we won that round. I kind of like that he’s quiet on this issue - they are the most hysterical of all.
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You’re ill-informed!
The “bathroom” issue has nothing whatsoever to do with homosexuals, and it is a massive hardship on small businesses.
One added bathroom can easily cost a small restaurant $100,000 to construct in an established commercial complex, and additionally increase their rents by $800 per month.
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Good grief, a “leaked” draft EO about LGBT to stir up a kerfuffle, then scuttled.
This is about news that never happened. I guess that’s not “fake news.”
the important takeaway here is who is playing on our team. We didnt elect ‘i went to Jared’ into office...
While Ivanka and Jared may some sway with the President, it is by no means a veto power. To accommodate the expressed opinions of his daughter and son-in-law, the language will no doubt be muted, with generalities coached in terms of consideration and tolerant recognition of gains so far, but whatever point to which they have advanced, that is as far as it goes for the next several years, until such time as a more liberal regime wrests control of the levers of power in these United States. Like all other advisers and close confidants of the seat of high power, Ivanka and Jared shall pass from the scene some day, and so long as rabid liberals are kept from assuming the Oval Office again, those who follow will de-escalate the “inevitable” march to defining deviancy down even further.
America may yet be reborn as a representative republic, and old Ben Franklin would have once more a reason to smile.
All social experimentation and democrat lunacy should be removed from the military asap.
Mattis is right.
FAKE NEWS. Nothing Trump said in 18 months of campaigning indicated he would roll back this stuff.
Fake news to sow discord.
Bannon does not have to “go around Jared”
I agree. Better strategy is to focus on things which will do long-term damage to the Left, like getting a conservative on the Supreme Court, rather than things which will further mobilize the Left's base against us. It's best, right now, to focus on those things which will damage the Left's elites, while not exciting their troops.
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