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Obama to Issue Gay Rights Executive Order
BBC News ^ | June 16, 2014 18:14 GMT | Associated Press

Posted on 06/16/2014 12:16:26 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists

President Barack Obama will sign an order banning federal government contractors from discriminating against gay and transgender workers, officials have said.

The executive order follows years of pressure from gay rights groups.

Mr Obama cannot extend the protection to all American workers, however.

The order comes after far broader anti-discrimination legislation stalled in the Republican-led House of Representatives.

The executive order will apply only to federal contractors, which employ nearly one-quarter of the US workforce.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoeo; bhohomosexualagenda; executiveorder; firstgaypresident; gay; gaystapo; homosexual; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; libertarians; obama; rulebyfiat; transgender
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To: unixfox

Not in his mind.


61 posted on 06/16/2014 6:11:09 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: INVAR

“Next step in making it illegal with punitive penalties both in public and private life to believe homosexuality is a sin.”

Just like in Canada.


62 posted on 06/16/2014 8:30:04 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a classical Christian approach to homeschool])
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To: Up Yours Marxists

More and more I’m having to bite my tongue to keep the “authorities” from knocking on my door. But that blinking light on my cable box has me worried.


63 posted on 06/16/2014 9:55:57 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Up Yours Marxists; Fred Nerks; TigersEye; little jeremiah; caww

Executive Order O-248799969/S

“Any and all homosexuals, lesbians and transgendered individuals, Senators of the United States Government and their dependents, and All United States Congress persons are hereby permitted by the executive authority of the United States, to openly and freely commit consensual acts of sodomy,felatio,cunnilingus, and any sexual act, in the bivouacs,installations, rooms, dwellings, residences, embasseys, and consulates, bathrooms and showers, notwithstanding any limitations of the aforesaid, in every military and civilian facility of the government of the United States”

Saul Alinsky would be very, very proud.


64 posted on 06/17/2014 1:57:51 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

Reads like satire.

I’ve practically got anorexia lately from the news. This will set me off my feed at least for one day.


65 posted on 06/17/2014 6:02:45 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: blueplum

“...reparations, anyone?...”

Reparations? For queers??? What did they ever have happen to them to deserve reparations?


66 posted on 06/17/2014 6:19:30 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
The order comes after far broader anti-discrimination legislation stalled in the Republican-led House of Representatives.

Stalled? I'd take the legislation put it in a bathroom stall, to be used as TP.

67 posted on 06/18/2014 4:01:58 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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