Obama's LGBT Hiring Executive Order Will Not Include Religious Exemption

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

By DYLAN SCOTT Published JULY 18, 2014, 3:49 PM EDT

President Barack Obama plans to sign on Monday a long-awaited executive order prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people by federal contractors, and it will not include the broad religious exemption sought by religious leaders.

The Huffington Post reported on Friday that Obama's order will add sexual orientation and gender identity to an existing non-discrimination order that covers race, sex and religion. A White House official confirmed the report to TPM. It will not include any general religious exemption for religious employers.

The order does, however, maintain an executive order by President George W. Bush that allows religious employers to prioritize hiring members of their religion, according to the official. Obama pledged to issue the order earlier this year after the House failed to take up the Senate-passed Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit hiring discrimination against LGBT people more broadly.

Following the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling, several religious leaders, including a member of Obama's 2012 campaign, wrote to the president asking that he include a broad religious exemption in his forthcoming order.

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[RKP5637]

1. Excellent! This will make the bigots and persecutors unhappy, I'm sure. They are

just relentless, just gotta have someone to kick around, it feels good to them, it's how they get their jollies off.

[randys1]

2. Bigots be bigots...this is another example of why Obama isnt perfect, far from it, but is still

one hundred and ninety three million times better than any or all republicans combined

[RKP5637]

3. So true, when you look at the alternatives, they're all down in the toilet (where they belong.) n/t

[christx30]

9. Fish gotta swim.

Birds gotta fly.
Bigots gotta stop the gay agenda. Like picking up dry cleaning, getting a job. I'd imagine laundry and picking up takeout are in there somewhere. Heathens.

[RKP5637]

11. Yep, I think they see it as their job, seems to be the core of their lives. So pathetic. n/t

[MNBrewer]

4. Good. No concessions to religious bigots.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. As someone at an Oklahoma website said,

Oklahoma must allow gay couples to wed, federal court rules

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Mark Russell · Top Commenter · Works at All About Group Travel, LLC

so happy Anita Bryant is alive to see this

In week that had lots not to like, at least there was this.

[Lost In America]

7. "so happy Anita Bryant is alive to see this"

HEAR! HEAR!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. And I do not know where her statue is. NT

[RKP5637]

13. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OKNancy]

16. shocked at all the positive comments on the

Daily Disappointment's site

[PM Martin]

6. The christian right (taliban of the west) needed this reality brought to them.

One's religion does not give the right to discriminate.

[ChazInAz]

21. Disappointing for them, not to get their way.

Because that's what they really, really, REALLY wanted to do with Hobby Lobby!

[William769]

10. I knew he would do the right thing.

[Swede Atlanta]

12. We're being persecuted and cannot practice our religion......

Violation of 1st Amendment. We must be free to be bigots and arses.

I can hear the choir warming up now.....he is preventing us from practicing our religion of hate. This is unconstitutional!!!

[blkmusclmachine]

14. The Bigots/Haters have Hobby Lobby. They don't need Obama's <<anything>>

[Iliyah]

15. They also got the five asshole justices and gawd knows

I mean their gawd knows the prejudice because in "right" Christian beliefs it ok to hate.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

17. BOOM!

That was the collective sound of 1,000,000 Republican heads exploding...

[stillwaiting]

18. Obama HATES Christians and is obviously a Kenyan Muslim Nazi!

Because Muslims and Nazis treat(ed) gay people so VERY DAMN WELL!

Thanks Obama. You have been good on social issues.

[sheshe2]

19. Yay!

Thank you President Obama.

[mountain grammy]

20. Fuck em. If they want to do business with the federal government

they have to suck it up and not discriminate. Those are my tax dollars and I don't want them used to spread the hate.

[Fearless]

22. Just by federal contractors though

Civilian positions will still be fair game.

Separate but equal is inherently unequal!

[AndyTiedye]

24. That is All He Can Do With an Executive Order

[Fearless]

25. I was not criticizing that he was doing it but that it creates

An inequality in the nation. Separate but equal is inherently unequal.

[Cha]

23. Wonderful EO, President Obama.. Mahalo! thank you, Don!