Prez: no lgbt discrimination based on religion

[deltex1]

Now that the world is tranquil, obabble has time to deal with more anal issues.

 

[PoliticalTorch]

I know in my 60 years the first thing I do at a job is announce what sex I PREFER

Uh, Kinky!

 

[Quantum Windbag]

White House Says No Religious Exemptions Will Be Included In Administration's New Anti-Discrimination Order | ThinkProgress

Last month, the administration announced it would amend two executive orders barring employers who rely on federal funds from discriminating against a series of traits. The current order includes race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Now, it will also include gender identity and sexual orientation. The move is a Band-Aid solution to the broader problem of Congress not passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that would bar all employers from discriminating against people based on their sexuality.

When the announcement came last month, though, there remained an open question as to whether religious objectors would be exempt. About 140 religious leaders requested broad exemptions, while more than 100 members of clergy specifically asked Obama not to include such an exemption. On Friday, Politico reported that the administration will not heed the former requests, and will instead make the rule apply more broadly to all federal contractors.

“This is a tremendous victory for those of us who believe that as people of faith we should be exemplary, not exempted,” said Rev. Fred Davie, Executive Vice President at Union Theological Seminary. Rev. Davie will be a guest when the President signs the executive order on Monday. “Religions of the world across the ages have engendered and supported discrimination and bigotry from deceptively genteel to utterly horrific. We have also sacrificed our very lives for our neighbors in response to God’s radical and unrelenting call to love others as much as we love ourselves,” he added.

While it may seem like a small technicality to make a new anti-discrimination rule exclusively for government contractors, the order will actually effect over a million LGBT workers in the United States, and will be the largest expansion of LGBT workers’ rights in the nation’s history. In 29 states, it is legal to fire someone for being gay. In 34, an employer can fire someone with no recourse if they are transgender.

Pubs obstruct full implementation of our constitution.

Bet some RWs will say they want employers to be able to fire people based on their private lives.

How long before some RWs want video cameras in our bedrooms?

Damn, another idiot that thinks Obama has the power to ignore the law.

 

[The Rabbi]

Are you a prostitute???

Not the first time she's been asked that

That stuff is known to happend in trailer parks

There's that GOP war on women at it again.
You are a Republican, right?

 

[Stephanie]

I know in my 60 years the first thing I do at a job is announce what sex I PREFER

Are you a prostitute???

 

[Luddly Neddite]

As usual, some RWs are against equality.

Tough.