Trump’s Anti-LGBT Proposal

[Lilmonzter 2,864]

Businesses could discriminate on the basis of sex, race LGBTQ status and more soon, according to a drafted Trump Labor rule. Here’s what you should know about the bigoted proposal.

Despite his assurances that he wouldn’t touch LGBTQ workplace protection laws at the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trumphas formally proposed a new Labor Department rule that would allow businesses with federal contracts to cite religious objections as a legal way to discriminate against employees. The legal discrimination includes on the basis of LGBTQ identity, race, sex, national origin, ethnicity, and other characteristics. Learn more about the Trump administration’s draft rule, and how it could affect workers like you:

1. Businesses with federal contracts would be able to cite religious objections as a valid reason to discriminate against employees. Citing religious reasons, the business could legally fire, demote, or discriminate against an employee on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, LGBTQ status, among other things. Corporations, schools, and societies are also protected, provided they claim they have a “religious purpose,” according to the draft rule. It also states that the organization doesn’t need to be entirely religious. “The contractor must be organized for a religious purpose, meaning that it was conceived with a self-identified religious purpose. This need not be the contractor’s only purpose,” according to the proposal. “A religious purpose can be shown by articles of incorporation or other founding documents, but that is not the only type of evidence that can be used.” Instead, the business can say that faith/morals guide them.

The proposal would apply to up to 420,000 contractors, according to a notice from the Federal Register, per Buzzfeed News: “While only a subset of contractors and would-be contractors may wish to seek this exemption, the Supreme Court, Congress, and the President have each affirmed the importance of protecting religious liberty for those organizations who wish to exercise it.”

2. The National Center for Transgender Equality said in a statement the rule could allow “firing or refusing to hire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. It could also lead to federal contractors refusing to hire women or unmarried workers who are pregnant or parents, or even discrimination on the basis of race.”

 3. The proposal rolls back the policies of past presidencies. President Lyndon B. Johnson banned discrimination in the workplace by executive order in 1965. President George W. Bush added a small religious exemption during his administration that allows religious corporations make employment decisions based on their faith. Obama expanded Johnson’s order to also protect LGBTQ people working for federal contractors.

4. This comes despite Trump vowing in January 2017 to leave former President Barack Obama’s LGBT workplace protections intact. Days after his inauguration, the Trump administration released a statement denying the rumor that the president would sign an executive order rolling back lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights: “President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election,” read the statement from the White House Office of the Press Secretary. “The President is proud to have been the first ever GOP nominee to mention the LGBTQ community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression. The executive order signed in 2014, which protects employees from anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination while working for federal contractors, will remain intact at the direction of President Donald J. Trump.”

5. The ACLU protested the proposal in a written statement: “Once again, the Trump administration is shamefully working to license taxpayer-funded discrimination in the name of religion,” Ian Thompson, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union said in the statement.  “Nearly one-quarter of the employees in the U.S. work for an employer that has a contract with the federal government. We will work to stop this rule that seeks to undermine our civil rights protections and encourages discrimination in the workplace.”

https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/what-is-trump-labor-rule-discriminate-lgbt-race-employees-contractors/

[DonatellaPop 3,482]

what the ****?

[Karl 3,575]

The fascism continues

At this point I'm convinced even if he doesn't get a second term he will refuse to leave the white house 

[AdmistTheLight 2,269]

2 minutes ago, Karl said:

The fascism continues

At this point I'm convinced even if he doesn't get a second term he will refuse to leave the white house 

Well, then maybe America's obession with guns finally be put into good use.

Everytime I hear something about this guy I have to remind myself no one deserve to be torture to death, but it's getting so hard

[ltlmnstr 2,771]

We need to rig the system. Have a Muslim business fire a Christian just for being Christian and expose how idiotic this all is. 

He’s using our taxes to get away with this.

I can’t believe if a religious organization doesn’t like black people they can fire them just for being black. Not even hire them. They might as well bring back segregation signs. All under the guise of “religion” when it’s really “Christian-only”

[Karl 3,575]

Just now, AdmistTheLight said:

Well, then maybe America's obession with guns finally be put into good use.

Everytime I hear something about this guy I have to remind myself no one deserve to be torture to death, but it's getting so hard

Something will happen eventually, we have to keep telling ourselves he cant be there forever. Hitler's reign ended eventually, and Trump's rise to power isn't dissimilar to his. (NOT comparing their actions only their rise to power and populist/fascist tendencies) I cant wait to see his face when he does have to leave, whether next year or 2024 

[Nemo 4,410]

6 minutes ago, Karl said:

At this point I'm convinced even if he doesn't get a second term he will refuse to leave the white house 

Nobody would back him if he tried that. We're not that far gone yet.

[Mister G 10,512]

That photo op with the rainbow flag cracks me up. Clearly rigged and staged as a front. This dude is the definition of hypocrisy, greed and bigotry...unless you have money and fit into his social circle.

[PunkTheFunk 125,703]

Very scary, but not surprising in the least

[Helxig 45,327]

America is slowly turning into a terrible, terrible country

[Vergil 2,296]

Still won’t affect the rich lgbt people who voted for him.

[imnotyourbabe10 6,120]

OT: 45 has always been such a charlatan in his "support" of the lgbtq community and others.  That pic of him with the rainbow is so fitting

Sidebar: I understand America is turning into fascism but so many people are complacent or complicit about it!  Seeing the Hong Kong protests and others makes me long for my fellow citizens to wake up and disrupt the system, ffs.  We have been so manipulated by the powers that be (and economic system) and, even with access to knowledge at our fingertips, use it for self-indulgence or misinformation (anti-vaxing, flat earth).  We have the right to protest and take public space but people won't do it because ("I have a family to care for"; "I'd get fired"; "I don't want to rock the boat." and so forth) as is indicated by the image below...

It's been a crazy time to be alive.  Glad to have spent some of it with this cult, GGD!

[AmericanxDream 2,049]

It's like he's trying to become a Supervillain. 

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

Imagine unironically making this thread:

[Whispering 18,865]

Rolling rights back to 1965...

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