Day after Inauguration
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.
I don’t believe anything without solid proof these days.
Agree 100%. Jared Kushner is there to block Bannon on socially liberal issues.
Yep, nothing.
It’s just incredible. You can’t read or listen to anything and assume it’s true.
And it seems we have at least a few Freepers around here who are eager little beavers to post whatever fake garbage they can find.
Thanks to Freepers like you, I still learn new things everyday.
You posted a great tip:
This is about news that never happened. I guess that’s not “fake news.”
So now I can post, “This is about news that never happened, so it doesn’t qualify as fake news!
I will have a new tagline when a post is about news that never happened!
I hope he goes back to New York City with Ivanka next week, and we never hear from either of them again.
You know....the control of “words” just is so important to the Narrative.
There is no such thing as “LBB&**&^%^*(....” “rights” The only “Rights” that all of us have are Natural Rights from God. There can be no “Justice” (virtue) system in the USA if “laws” promote evil, irrational behaviors (socialism, welfare/slavery has to go, too, since it embeds dependency and destroys virtue formation in children).
Just Laws are based on the Laws of Nature and nature’s God (Objective Truth).
The only non-sexist system which confers the Natural rights to the baby is the one based on the man/woman paradigm, where the child has a better chance at being created by an act of TRUE LOVE. The patriarchy creates the only “unity” possible with the diverse nature of male and female...there is no such thing as “Equal” or “The Same”.
Homosexual “unions” are evil, and dysfunctional, defy science and destroy Natural Rights of any child stripped from the people meant to love and bond with them. They will not understand reality as God designed it; they won’t be capable of common sense.
Marriage-—the word is DESTROYED by SCOTUS 5, who need to be put in prison for Treason. They literally destroyed a fundamental institution to Life and order, so childhood could be destroyed and hyper-sexualized: they literally made marriage meaningless—because that is how the Marxists can flip 2000 years of Good and Evil, so Satanism (their religion) becomes embedded in little children, and evil will always collapse civil society.
Once you give someone a right, its hard to take it back.
Yes, they are.
Trump was elected because a lot of people have gotten sick and tired of this country's political establishment. One of the most egregious examples of this was the jailing of Kim Davis in Kentucky over her refusal to sign a "gay marriage" certificate.
The Federal judge in that case was a George W. Bush appointee. Some of us voted for Donald Trump because it was the only way we could effectively say "'Eff you!" to the political establishment in both parties.
It doesn't matter how many jobs are created under the Trump administration, or how big a wall he builds along the Mexican border, if this kind of diabolical sh!t is allowed to stand.
Does anyone even care what the unemployment rate was in Sodom and Gomorrah the day before those cities were destroyed?
thanks dave, will do!
Bannon sure did saturday night and just jared was furious...
next weeks story: ‘Ivanka and Jared scuttle climate change pullout accords’
If you believe the fake news, sure.
You can borrow my new tagline when you post about news that never happened, or just ping me or both.:)
I wouldn’t mind if a FReeper posted an article such as this and explained why it wasn’t believable, but to post it without comment seems disingenuous to me. It smacks of a deliberate attempt to mislead.
I believe that Bannon and Kelly Anne are on our side.
get rid off all rino’s now , even in the west wing.
Dude, this is a POLITICO article. I thought the mods designated they needed to be in chat, not the NEWS section of FR.
so now the rinos are playing semantics, wonderful.
so now the rinos are playing semantics, wonderful.
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