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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump drafting LGBT Executive Order
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Follow up: Admin source says LGBT EO could affect federal employee benefits & protections & adoption agencies that receive federal funding
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More: EO could allow fed employees to refuse to serve LGBT based on belief marriage is b/t man & woman or gender is immutable from birth
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Initech
(100,102 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)So in two weeks time we've protested for women, against a Muslim ban, and next up pro- LGBTQ.
But no, to answer your question, all we can do is seize the streets.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)to pitchforks and torches or maybe tar and feathers.
Maybe both - diversify a bit.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Internet freedom.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)the veterans. And I can't imagine the military is happy with him right now.
LW1977
(1,236 posts)Resident Trump can fuck himself with the prickliest cactus!
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)And when can we throw this dispicable deplorable out?
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)purpose he's sold his lack of soul and hung around the party.
Takket
(21,625 posts)Idoru
(167 posts)Are just for show, they will wind up in court for the most part or take years trying. Still it is important to show resistance. Time for a new hat design.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)I don't have much going on. A trip to DC sounds nice this time of year.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)He's destroying our freedom and shredding the constitution line by line. It's getting fucking scary.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Which may legitimize that Twitter account
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)So they can send in the National Guard.
Republicans need to impeach that orange fucker NOW.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Many, many are minorities.
Rex
(65,616 posts)He didn't wait at all to push his fascist agenda.
brettdale
(12,384 posts)Can trump make it illegal for gay couples to adopt.
Could he ban gay marriage.
Could he make it illegal for people to ban gay people from their places of business?
Please tell me he cant do that.
Hekate
(90,793 posts).... Team Trump has indicated a complete disregard for law. They seem to believe that EOs are something the Mad King can just fling about like tweets and government will happen. Or something. So, I'd be nervous.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Wearily,
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NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)And get really, really nasty.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)have never organized to win a big political fight before.
If they try this I think it may outdo the women's march. If only because once they go after LGBTQ people women's reproductive rights will be next.
I. HATE. THEM. ALL.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 5, 2017, 09:10 PM - Edit history (1)
Let's have each other's backs. We'll be stronger by far together.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)but as of the Women's March there had been no EO affecting them.
Now he's reinstated the ban on abortion even being mentioned and I'll be he'll try an executive order going after Planned Parenthood, but LGBTQ people seem to be next on his list.
But, to your point and to quote Ben Franklin, "We all hang together or we will surely hang alone."
Hekate
(90,793 posts)...but we knew in advance. Team Trump TOLD us what they planned to do all along. Hence the Women's March.
As regards the Global Gag Order, it is a political football. I think Reagan started it. Then every time the WH changes parties, it gets yanked (Bill Clinton) or reinstated (Dubya) or yanked again (Obama) and finally reinstated yet again (Trump).
This is indeed done by Executive Order. The reason for this is that neither party has a sufficient majority any any one time to simply pass it as a law. Especially the Dems. So this is quick and easy and makes a statement that the Men in Charge are pro-life or conversely pro-woman.
It is a political football with women's very lives.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)tomorrow to change the subject.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)Yes, Trump kept Obama's EO on LGBT
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-considers-reversing-lgbt-protections-for-federal-workers/2017/01/30/06160150-e736-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?utm_term=.08e9f3fbaf29
As usual the MSM got it wrong again by predicting Trump would revoke the LGBT executive order.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)Most notable example were the news stories that Bannon's appointment to the National Security Council required Senate confirmation. Five minutes of research showed that story was bullshit as there are at least a half dozen people on the NSC that do not require Senate Confirmation.