LGBT News Obama Finally Ready To Sign Executive Order Targeting LGBT Job Discrimination

RainDreamer · Jul 19, 2014

Obama Finally Ready To Sign Executive Order Targeting LGBT Job Discrimination

President Barack Obama on Monday will sign an executive order banning workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workers of federal contractors and the federal government.

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To the relief of the LGBT community, there is no sweeping religious exemption in the executive order. Obama is simply adding the categories of sexual orientation and gender identity to an existing executive order that protects employees of federal contractors from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. President George W. Bush amended that executive order in 2002 to allow religiously affiliated federal contractors to prioritize hiring employees of their particular religion, however, and Obama is keeping that language intact.
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*emphasis mine*

Welp, we are getting somewhere!

justjade · Jul 27, 2014

Yay! (!)

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