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Firestorm Coming: Draft Of Trump Executive Order May Deny Services To Gay, Transgender People (BARF)
Zero Hedge ^ | 2-2-2017 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 02/02/2017 5:06:33 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

In what may be the biggest firestorm set off by a Trump executive order to date, surpassing even the widespread angry response to the Trump immigration order, a draft of an executive order circulating in the Trump administration would dramatically expand the legal protections for individuals, organizations and employers on the grounds of their religious beliefs, and as the WSJ reports, would potentially allow the denial of services to gay and transgender people, and contraception coverage for employees. The draft is titled “Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom.” While it hasn't been signed and may never make it to President Donald Trump’s desk, advocacy groups see the draft order as a broad statement of intent from a president who courted conservative Christian voters during the campaign by promising to expand the role of religion in public life. As the WSJ adds, the draft order lays out many of the proposals that conservative Christians have been requesting for years, including legal protections for organizations that claim religious objections to providing a wide range of services. It also directs federal agencies to “avoid potential violations of Religious Freedom”, instructing officials not to “coerce” religious entities or individuals into “participating in activities that violate their conscience.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakestreammedia; governmentcoercion; jakenews; jakestreammedia; perversion; sin; sodomites
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For Bible believing Christians & Jews to be forced to support any form of blatant sin by the Federal Government, against their individual consciences & religious beliefs, is a form of religious persecution........

It also makes the tacit statement that the United States Government is opposed to the values embraced by those who call themselves followers of Jesus Christ.....

Trump needs to begin firing leakers, Obama appointees, and other political opponents engaged it the undermining of his administration.

Queers & baby-killers can call their moral choices whatever they desire.... we will still call it perversion & murder....

1 posted on 02/02/2017 5:06:33 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Wasn’t this found to be more fake news the other day?


2 posted on 02/02/2017 5:08:01 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: manc
Wasn’t this found to be more fake news the other day?

This never Trump outfit has published more fake news and somehow got it posted on FR than CNN this week.


3 posted on 02/02/2017 5:11:15 PM PST by Grampa Dave (lesbians, gays, transgenderits, minorities, illegals, muslims, Uber drivers & children hurt by Trump)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Not part of the 100 day plan, doubt its being worked on.


4 posted on 02/02/2017 5:15:14 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: manc

Perhaps so, but I have to say that protections for persons and religious institutions, is a good thing.

If a homosexual comes in and orders food or a drink, I say great. They should be served like anyone else.

If they come in and demand a cake for a homosexual wedding, it would seem proper for the owner to be able to state they don’t support homosexual events.

At the same time it would be nice if they referred them to someone who does. This doesn’t need to a mean thing. It’s simply a matter of conscience.

Churches that do not approve of certain contraceptives, should not be forced to provide them for their female employees.

I don’t want to see folks denied service in a broad way, but in certain ways both sides have rights and individuals and the business owner’s rights should be protected too.


5 posted on 02/02/2017 5:16:00 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: DoughtyOne
This appears to be a pre-emptive strike against the elimination of the Johnson Act which threatens a church's tax free staus if a pastor speaks politically from the pulpit.


The enemy's major weapon is words.


They change the definition, invent new forms and they have the public school system to assist in their evil intention.


Mostly they fail, but remember this .... EVERY ONE OF THOSE RIOTERS IN _____________ (fill in what ever city du jour) ... IS A PUBLIC HS GRADUATE.

6 posted on 02/02/2017 5:21:42 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

January 31, 2017

President Donald J. Trump Will Continue to Enforce Executive Order Protecting the Rights of the LGBTQ Community in the Workplace

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. 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.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/31/president-donald-j-trump-will-continue-enforce-executive-order


7 posted on 02/02/2017 5:22:36 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: DoughtyOne

“We reserve to right to refuse service to anyone”


8 posted on 02/02/2017 5:24:10 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: knarf

I agree.


9 posted on 02/02/2017 5:31:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: knarf

Could be a pre-emptive attack....the article quotes the WSJ as a source,.....

WSJ, NYT, CNN, MSNBC,.....nothing but globalist propaganda organs....


10 posted on 02/02/2017 5:31:36 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (career libs @ BIG BROTHER Inc.,..... President Trump says your fired!)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
..would potentially allow  the denial of services to gay and transgender people  business owners to exercise their right to choose with whom they care to do business
11 posted on 02/02/2017 5:31:53 PM PST by tomkat
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To: going hot

Exactly!

May never use it, but we have that right.

I will say this, if an establishment wants to deny service to Blacks, I’d be pretty pissed off about it.

If there weren’t something additional going on. If it were Blacks causing problems, then of course, by all means deny service.

Same for members of any other race who would come in causing trouble.


12 posted on 02/02/2017 5:33:23 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Trump announced, at this morning's prayer breakfast, that he will work to abolish the Johnson Amendment>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Amendment

Short version,
"...is a provision in the U.S. tax code that prohibits all 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates. 501(c)(3) organizations are the most common type of nonprofit organization the United States, ranging from charitable foundations to universities and churches."

This means that the whole idea of religious freedom is restored...

Not to be too crude, the LGTB is shitting themselves. They would no longer be able to use the federal government to blackmail churches by threatening their tax-exempt status into shutting up about gay marriage, multi-sex bathrooms, transgendered Boy scout troops...

13 posted on 02/02/2017 5:34:19 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Ray76

Trump has way to many Christians surrounding him to keep placating to the homosexual lobby. No one should be discriminated against, but homosexuals have no less or certainly no more rights than any American. Look for the “transgender” protection to disappear. This opens up all types of sordid behavior like men in women’s bathrooms, drag queens to continue to serve in the military with the US government paying for sex changes. That nonsense will end. If Trump continues to cave to the homosexual lobby look for his support in the Christian community to come to an end and he will not be reelected. Evangelicals and Catholics put him in the White House and he knows this. Almost his entire inner circle are Evangelical or Catholic and they practice their faith.


14 posted on 02/02/2017 5:35:43 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

“Trump needs to begin firing leakers, Obama appointees, and other political opponents engaged it the undermining of his administration.”

.....no doubt about that!

Every day Trump’s appointees are held up by the Demoncrats should result in a fresh list of Obama-appointees being purged from the respective agencies which have their Cabinet appointment delayed....


15 posted on 02/02/2017 5:36:54 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (career libs @ BIG BROTHER Inc.,..... President Trump says your fired!)
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To: jonascord

“Trump announced, at this morning’s prayer breakfast, that he will work to abolish the Johnson Amendment”....GREAT!

The Johnson Amendment is religious persecution against Christians & a violation of their First Amendments rights.


16 posted on 02/02/2017 5:40:01 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (career libs @ BIG BROTHER Inc.,..... President Trump says your fired!)
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To: jonascord

Sean Spicer said at his presser this morning that the religious exemption executive order will be coming soon. You can bet his very Christian inner circle will have a hand in the order. No more wedding cakes will be baked for a couple of lesbian’s “wedding” by a baker who says they’re Christian and it violates their conscience. No more schools will be threatened with loss of funding if they don’t let boys use the girls bathroom.


17 posted on 02/02/2017 5:40:10 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

This has to be fake news. If not, Bannon needs to go and fast.


18 posted on 02/02/2017 5:47:15 PM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud horrible deplorable)
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To: jonascord

Excellent! Thanks for the ping!

This means that the whole idea of religious freedom is restored...

Not to be too crude, the LGTB is shitting themselves. They would no longer be able to use the federal government to blackmail churches by threatening their tax-exempt status into shutting up about gay marriage, multi-sex bathrooms, transgendered Boy scout troops...


19 posted on 02/02/2017 5:49:19 PM PST by Grampa Dave (lesbians, gays, transgenderits, minorities, illegals, muslims, Uber drivers & children hurt by Trump)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
Well the democrat nazis can just boycott the places that take advantage of having their right to freedom of religion protected.
20 posted on 02/02/2017 5:49:43 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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