Posted on 03/29/2017 1:32:00 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Executive Order 13672...explicitly prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of gender identity or sexuality. Although Trump did not erase that order...
No, he didn't. So what did he rescind?
Under Executive Order 13673, which Obama issued in 2014, companies receiving federal contracts in excess of half a million dollars were required to demonstrate they had complied with a set of 15 federal or state labor laws over the previous three years
Now, $500K isn't a very big contract as federal contracts go, and the administrative overhead in demonstrating compliance tends to force those contracts to companies large enough to have internal staffs who can do the compliance proof paperwork, or force smaller companies to hire such people themselves. This is job protection for bureaucrats, nothing more.
...several of those laws offered critical protections for LGBTQ workers.
Really? What protection was provided over and above the simple prohibition of discrimination in hiring which has not been rescinded? The authors do not say, and it isn't a surprise.
By removing the requirement that companies prove their compliance with federal law, the government has no way to ensure they’re also following the nondiscrimination requirements Obama explicitly laid out.
This is a lie. The courts are a part of the government, and they're still very much in play.
In other words, the president has created a major loophole that could allow companies to deny LGBTQ people opportunities or otherwise treat them unequally—and those organizations can still receive massive federal contracts.
The President has created nothing of the sort. Discrimination is still illegal and companies may be sued if it happens. This "loophole" simply means that the companies are not presumed guilty until given a pass through a blizzard of forms, inspections, and federal and state oversight. Nobody's rights have been taken away, and it is a lie to pretend or imply that they have. Trump has removed an onerous bit of government ring-kissing from private industry, nothing more.
Only if they enjoy having the EEOC up their ass all the time ...
If they want to keep the Diversity Nazis off their backs, they make sure they have diversity ... thus they prefer hiring black lesbians.
It sort of sounds like it was a deal 0bama put in, to require a bunch of regulatory crap that would make it so hard for employers, that they would just give up and hire the LGBTQs to avoid the burden of compliance.
The regulation required documenting antidiscrimination practices as a function of the bidding process. Any bidder failing to provide documentation of such practices was automatically rejected.
In effect the rule denied fair process to any bidder who had never intentionally hired a member of a designated classes.
Laws against antidiscrimination remain in place. Prejudging does not.
Is Congress included in this ,LOL
This article is make believe. The author states he didn’t revoke the Gay order. But, that reducing paperwork requirements in general somehow impacts the Gaystapo. Pretending.
If it were “all my girl friends” then it would be a good idea :)
Chocolate can be used in many ways :)
I respect everyone’s choice of friends. It ain’t my business.
I just didn’t ever expect on FR to see “all of my gay friends” :)
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. - Seinfeld reference :)
I would imagine he is doing away with all the expensive and time-consuming paperwork involved in all these regulations. That doesn’t do away with discrimination laws.
>God also said “Thou shalt not kill”
Yes, but God didn’t say anything about short Helicopter rides for Communists. Until he does I’ll continue in my ways :)
Companies that I’ve worked for and still work for, have antidiscrimination clauses in their bylaws..be it gender, religion, orientation, etc. Those won’t be rolled back. But the requirements to go back 3 years and prove it sounds more like a quota argument than anything else. I see this as a hand wringing exercise..and worrying (senselessly,imo) about what * might* happen.
How dare you impugn the hard-hitting journalistic reputation of Vogue!
And your shoes are hideous!
This is just for federal contractors, causing taxpayers more money for paperwork. As you say, all employers are still under anti discrimination laws.
Do gays have any idea of the cost of compliance? It’s an impediment to any business. Their sexual orientation or identification should not be an employer’s concern, one way or the other.
it was Obama’s attempt to bestow strict scrutiny on homos by executive order. Strict Strutiny being the form of substantive due process which requires the government to prove why a law is not unconstitutional as it applies to a minority group. Thus bestowing de facto minority status on the homos as if they were born that way. This is why they want to claim they were born that way.
it was Obama’s attempt to bestow strict scrutiny on homos by executive order. Strict Strutiny being the form of substantive due process which requires the government to prove why a law is not unconstitutional as it applies to a minority group. Thus bestowing de facto minority status on the homos as if they were born that way. This is why they want to claim they were born that way.
“I don’t have any gay friends.”
I used to have several. Each and every one of them died from their deathstyle lifestyle.
Lied!? No. Simply a terminological ambiguity.
Many years ago I had a gay acquaintance in New Orleans.
He worked at Audubon Zoo with my roommate at the time.
He was a pretty nice guy, uber flamer though.
One morning he woke up with Bell’s Palsy. Whole side of his face just hanging there.
First time I ever heard of that.
I’ve no idea how long it lasted, or if it ever went away, but I remember wondering if that was an effect of his lifestyle.
But Trump isn’t conservative enough!!!!
A very simple way for gays to AVOID this completely... is to STOP being GAY. /s
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