The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it was making changes to an Obama-era executive order that could allow religious federal contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ workers.
This is already being challenged by the fine folks at the ACLU.
It will never be enforced.
“Chickens for Colonel Sanders!”
I had a coworker who sat next to me and insisted on talking politics. When he made noise about LGBTQ bathroom protections, I pointed out that it’s a battle he and his have already lost, due to corporations the world over supporting inclusiveness.
So why whine about something you’ve already lost? He didn’t have a good reply, of course.
According to the OFCCP, the new rule would “clarify that religious organizations may make employment decisions consistent with their sincerely held [bigotry] without fear of sanction by the federal government.”
Fixed
“their sincerely held religious tenets and beliefs”
That is the first problem, sincere.
That looks like Trump’s hand-writing. Or maybe it’s Barron’s. Hard to tell the difference.
The outrage is the end deliverable; he doesn’t give a crap about actually hurting gay people or not. That doesn’t mean those absurd Log Cabin Republicans shouldn’t be mocked at every turn, though.
Using the First Amendment to make racial, sexual and other discrimination 100% legal has been a long standing and long attempted goal for white supremacists and the Confederacy. They’re finally getting to see it become reality.
The end point of this is to allow any kind of discrimination…remember that southerners pointed to religion as the reason segregation was right and should continue. It’s a perversion of the freedom of religion, that’s supposed to protect your ability to worship how you want, not allow you to impose your beliefs on others or hurt them because your beliefs say it’s fine. We really need a law, not regulation, to enshrine this ideal.
If you want to hamstring your own business by driving away educated and well-off potential employees, I guess that’s a decision you could make, y’know? But everybody who’s big enough to study the problem has decided that inclusiveness is just good business.
But her emails…
I don’t think that’s been mentioned today. And I don’t want to be responsible for people forgetting one of the reasons we find ourselves in this nightmare.
Let us hope.
In the meantime, I am mournfully sick of of his consistent choosing of the most despicable things he can choose to do.
I expect that it will at least be litigated through to 2021, when it can be withdrawn if we get an actual President instead of a tool.
This is totally toward the base, who feel that anyone else being treated fairly is a clear loss to them.
Did Milo, Jim Hoft or Peter Thiel chime in yet?
Trumpistan wants to have only Straight, Rich, Wretched Non-Nobility Europeans aka White race, Gun-loving White Supremacists aka #TrumpsTerrorists, Fake Christians, Hateful Violent MAGATs, Sexual Assaulter Sycophants and Incestuous Predators!
BUT in America:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Addendum:
Yet Hobby Lobby seems to thrive. Not enough people care.
Trump’s instincts are purely hateful.
