{"id":36690,"date":"2016-04-28T18:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/house-republicans-move-to-undo-obamas-lgbt-executive-order-against-job-bias-with-a-religious-freedom-amendment\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T18:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:21:25","slug":"house-republicans-move-to-undo-obamas-lgbt-executive-order-against-job-bias-with-a-religious-freedom-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/house-republicans-move-to-undo-obamas-lgbt-executive-order-against-job-bias-with-a-religious-freedom-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Move to Undo Obama\u2019s LGBT Executive Order Against Job Bias with a \u2018Religious Freedom\u2019 Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>House Republicans Move to Undo Obama\u2019s LGBT Executive Order Against Job Bias with a \u2018Religious Freedom\u2019 Amendment<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/04\/steve-russell\/russell-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-311517\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/russell.jpg?resize=600%2C600\" alt=\"Steve Russell\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/russell.jpg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/russell.jpg?resize=195%2C195 195w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/russell.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A House Republican panel is trying to sneak a &ldquo;religious freedom&rdquo; amendment into a major defense bill that would&nbsp;undermine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2014\/07\/president-obama-signs-executive-order-on-lgbt-workplace-discrimination-full-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama&rsquo;s 2014 executive order<\/a>&nbsp;prohibiting anti-LGBT workplace discrimination among federal contractors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2016\/04\/28\/house-panel-oks-religious-freedom-measure-against-obama-lgbt-order\/\">the <em>Washington Blade&rsquo;<\/em>s Chris Johnson reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The amendment, introduced by freshman Rep. Steve Russell (R-Okla., pictured), would require the federal government when contracting with religious organizations to afford them exemptions consistent with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the American with Disabilities Act. Since neither of those laws prohibit anti-LGBT bias, the amendment would enable religious organizations doing business with the U.S. government to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Because the measure would have the force of law, it would overrule the executive order signed by President Obama in 2014 prohibiting contractors doing more than $10,000 a year in business with the U.S. government from engaging in anti-LGBT discrimination against employees. The president included no religious exemption in his order, although he left in place a Bush-era exemption allowing religious organizations contracting with the U.S. government to favor co-religionists in hiring practices.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment provides an exemption for &ldquo;any religious corporation, religious association, religious educational institution or religious society&rdquo; contracting with the U.S. government. All of those terms are undefined in the amendment, but the lack of definition for &ldquo;religious corporation&rdquo; could allow courts to construe the term broadly to any federal contractor &mdash; not just religious organizations &mdash; in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court&rsquo;s 2014 decision in the Hobby Lobby case.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/house-armed-services-committee-votes-to-strip-away-important-lgbt-non-discr\" target=\"_blank\">denounced the move<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Rep. Russell&rsquo;s harmful amendment would strip away existing protections for LGBT workers by undermining President Obama&rsquo;s executive order on LGBT non-discrimination protections in federal contracting,&rdquo;&nbsp;said HRC Government Affairs Director David Stacy.&nbsp;&ldquo;Evidently some House Republicans want to emulate their state legislative colleagues in undermining legal protections for LGBT Americans. House Republican Leadership must get this language out of the bill.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Russell amendment was approved by a vote of 33-29 early this morning. It would allow sweeping, taxpayer-funded discrimination in an attempt to promote anti-LGBT religious-based discrimination in the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. With far-reaching intended and unintended consequences, the vague amendment could even undermine existing nondiscrimination provisions that protect workers, and perhaps even beneficiaries, against discrimination on the basis of race, religion, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson adds:<\/p>\n<p>The next opportunity to remove the amendment will be through a floor amendment when the full House considers the measure, but the House Rules Committee would first have to approve the measure, which would be challenging because the panel is stacked heavily in favor of Republicans. If not a House floor vote, the next opportunity to remove the measure will be the conference committee when the House and Senate lawmakers hammer out the different versions of their legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/04\/steve-russell\/\">House Republicans Move to Undo Obama&rsquo;s LGBT Executive Order Against Job Bias with a &lsquo;Religious Freedom&rsquo; Amendment<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=Q0mUt8kCzVQ:r5ewU1g1r1w:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=Q0mUt8kCzVQ:r5ewU1g1r1w:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a 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