Posted on 05/28/2015 11:16:39 AM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON DC, May 28, 2015 (C-Fam.org) -- A source within the federal government has informed the Friday Fax that the White House is quietly moving forward with a policy change that will require charitable humanitarian groups to accept LGBT applicants in order to qualify for government funding, even those religious groups that might have religious objections.
The policy change is linked to an executive order President Obama issued last July that prohibits federal contractors from discriminatory hiring practices based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Faith-based groups were already wrestling with that order.
Things are about to get exponentially worse for faith-based groups who perform humanitarian tasks and receive not contracts but financial grants for doing so.
Though the executive order last summer was specifically related to federal procurement and contracts, it did not touch grant recipients that substantially outnumber contract recipients.
However, the White House has recently directed federal agencies to include the “sexual orientation and gender identity” clause in all grant agreements. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has agreed to make this change and is said to be weeks away from implementation.
The source added that federal agencies are being pressured to make this change without a subsequent executive order and that the State Department legal office has advised the White House that this is not a legal matter but a matter of policy.
The implication of this change would be devastating to those most in need if charitable organizations have to end programs in the poorest regions around the globe if they no longer are eligible for government grants.
One defense left to faith-based groups would be a claim under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. But the problem with that is it would be the grant recipient who would have to make the claim and take the government to court. This would be a long and costly proposition and success would be far from certain.
The White House has been under pressure from Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott and others to remove the religious exemption altogether from the Johnson-era executive order that President Obama amended last summer to include gays.
The Friday Fax was informed that some federal agencies are hesitant to make the change but because of pressure coming from the White House are reluctant to say no.
This change is just the latest of a series of religious liberty challenges directed at charitable organizations by the Obama administration.
Last December — on Christmas Eve — the Obama administration posted notice that charitable organizations that work with refugee children entering the United States must include sexual and reproductive health services that could include contraception and abortion.
Last July, President Obama’s executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating in the hiring of persons identifying as lesbian, gays, bisexuals and transgender – did not exempt religious organizations. At the time of the announcement two Bishop-Chairmen with the US Catholic Bishop’s conference immediately rebuked the order stating it was “unprecedented and extreme and should be opposed.”
Reprinted with permission from C-Fam.org.
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That's the way of schoolyard bullies.
This LGBT FIASCO is clipping along at an alarming rapid pace isnt it.
Obies gonna run out of control issues before he’s out of office at this rate.
Incorporation is the elephant in America’s living room.
It’s about time it was studied more carefully, I think.
It is high time Christians return to GOD for their provision.
MALACHI 3:10
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
Let’s see if we get anything aside from crickets out of our umpteen candidates..
Any organization that accepts Caesar’s money should have seen this coming from a mile away. That’s why no organization that gets taxpayer funding should ever really be considered “religious” by any objective measure.
We warned of this when President Bush allowed this faith based Trojan horse to be introduced to our churches. We said that the Fed would eventually want control in exchange for their money. And as they always have everywhere else, they did have done again just as predicted. For all those receiving the money, the message and the choice is clear “choose God and not a Mammon
-PJ
The bigger problem is that the government gives my money away to any faith based organization. Disputes between states, defense, monitoring international trade and commerce policy/law, and uphold the friggin’ constitution; that is the limit of what I want them to do.
How big is the largest rat trap you can buy?
Pass the tithing bowl and get out of the government subsidies...
You take federal money, you dance to their tune.
LOL!!!
Or else.
So predicatble a hackneyed stereotype he's almost boring... < yawn >
All we need now is to hear that "his feets is always sore..." LMAO!!!
I would love the opportunity to tell Obama to GFY.
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