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Senior Republican: Trump has given me assurances he will axe Obamas LGBT rights protectionsNick Duffy 5th December 2016, 8:07 PM
A senior Republican has confirmed that the Trump administration is still planning to roll back Barack Obamas executive orders on LGBT rights.
President Obama last year signed an executive order outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity among federal contractors. Earlier this year his administration followed up with guidance to schools, urging them not to discriminate against transgender students.
The Trump administration, which says it plans to axe many of Obamas executive orders, has declined to say whether the measures will see the axe, though VP-elect Mike Pence said previously that he would repeal them so that the transgender bathroom issue can be resolved with common sense at the local level.
A senior Republican who previously led the efforts to attack the executive orders in Congress has now confirmed the intention.
Oklahoma Rep. Steve Russell had previously attached an amendment to the crucial National Defense Authorization Act that would effectively usurp Obamas order, giving federal contractors a license to discriminate against LGBT people based on religious beliefs.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/12/05/senior-republican-trump-has-given-me-assurances-he-will-axe-obamas-lgbt-rights-protections/
Cha
(297,237 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Well we all know how this ends right?
Cha
(297,237 posts)Victoria Brownworth ?@VABVOX
And each one of these guys came for the women & you didn't care as we were sexually assaulted & denied our rights.
9:11 PM - 3 Dec 2016
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Starting next Jan 20th Cha.
Duh Furor's first 100 days will be a nightmare for many Americans, no doubt about it.
Cha
(297,237 posts)have years.
Maybe then those who sat home on their thumbs will join in.. and the ones who voted for trump bc they were brainwashed will have an epiphany.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)CNN, MSNBC and Fox have assured us many many many times that there is no difference between the republican and democratic party's.
And people actually bought it!
Cha
(297,237 posts)before they can't come back from the complete soaked brainwashing De-luxe!
gordianot
(15,238 posts)Actually it is debatable which human calamities will happen first. The dark ages are upon us.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)all hell is gonna break loose.
I don't know a single person who will put up
with this nazi republican shit for a second.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)of Trump's voters and followers will trumpet those moves as 'bringing Amerika back', etc.
atreides1
(16,079 posts)Everyone who voted for Trump will be the "good Germans" of the American version of the Reich! As long as the rights he takes away are from women, non-Christians, gays, and people of color, Trump supporters will look the other way!
Remember the German people went along, even after their cities had been bombed to rubble!!!
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Fuck the 'good german' Trump supporters.
They can kiss my ass.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)........
murielm99
(30,741 posts)That is what the German people said after the war, when confronted with the atrocities committed by their country.
They knew.
treestar
(82,383 posts)because the law is now that gay people who are married have to be treated equally to straight people who are married, at the very least.
spanone
(135,832 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)and roll back freedoms every time.
And yet America still keeps electing them. SMDH
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)people, make them miserable, inflict injury or death, the republicans are all for it.
What the assholes don't get that elected him into office, they are on the list too.
None or reduced Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, educational benefits, EPA almost gone, FDA marginalized, HUD F'ed up, jobs in the crapper, FAA and FCC marginalized.
And, D.C. is being filled with establishment billionaires, Trump types. Do any of these damn fools that elected Trump get it that in their eyes they are ALL LOSERS. They just don't F'en get it.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)They're fine until politics are brought up, then they turn into complete monsters. AM hate radio and Fox News have done this to us.
redwitch
(14,944 posts)white hot loathing kind of hate. Not very Christmassy but there it is.
I'm surprised at how much I hate this maggot.
barbtries
(28,794 posts)with the disasters
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)They have always excused the excesses of EVERY right wing asshole who has gone through the WH doors. THIS time, they'll get their own fingers pinched. Serves those fools right.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)as black white supremacists.
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)many of them support and excuse this as long as they can get rich
Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)This is exactly what many of us were afraid was going to happen. It starts with this shit and then gets bigger and bigger. Perfect example: Russia! Given the alleged ties the new administration has with Russia, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised for them to take a page from Putin's book, after all who the fuck is going to stick their necks out for a bunch of queers?! Yes, I know there are some real allies out there, but when push comes to shove, our rights will be on the chopping block and most will just shake their little fists and call it a day, all while waving a rainbow flag, after all that is all one needs to be a true ally.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)True_Blue
(3,063 posts)So much to look forward to.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)You got what you wanted, assholes. Nice job.
Well done. You wretched, hideous deplorables.
ismnotwasm
(41,980 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)They are so fierce in their dislike of gay people, TS/TG people it makes you think....some of them must have issues with these...issues.
They like to be seen as so religious but only the parts they want to hone in on, fudged or not.
Good humans do unto others as they would have them do unto them, and practice a live and let live philosophy. The Bible should not be about hate.
Right now the haters have a lot of power but we on the side of what is right will fight them to the last breath. The Hell with them.
And that Orange fraud who scotch tapes his ties will never be my president. I had issues with Nixon but not like this. Doofus Dubya was a disaster but not like this guy, this fraud.
Initech
(100,076 posts)malthaussen
(17,195 posts)Wait for action, you'll have fewer ulcers that way.
-- Mal
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Guess they were full of shit.
Who knew?
frankieallen
(583 posts)go through the legislative process. They can be reversed too easily by the next president.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)as we will soon see.
I really doubt that Dump gives a shit about a person's sexual orientation but his religious reich voters do and they can't wait to attack gays and strip them of their rights.
Dump will accommodate them for sure.
Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)"common sense protections "
Yes, that would have been ideal, but likely would have never passed, which is when our President made those proclamations it was because he refused to allow bigotry to win the day. It would be wonderful if he could have shored it up, but he still has a framework in which he is required to work, and it did not offer up protections for the GLBT.
yardwork
(61,608 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)Think about that next time you're a Democrat that votes for these hateful people. Think about that the next time you think it's clever to vote third party or leave your presidential pick blank
yardwork
(61,608 posts)True_Blue
(3,063 posts)davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Executive orders can be whisked away with a stroke of a pen. Obama and Democrats got too content with trying to force through through executive orders instead of working to retake Congress and pass actual legislation.
Even judicial decisions can be overturned.
A lot of overconfidence...and I saw it here too. A lot of people were saying things like that a "Republican will never win the White House again so we don't have to worry about executive orders being overturned." And that was said so many times many Democrats and progressives actually believed it!
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)They got theirs and fuck everybody else.