Now, the Trump administration plans to go further, Buzzfeed News reports<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration is currently planning to create a formal religious-liberty regulation for businesses with federal contracts, which would create a loophole in an Obama administration policy protecting LGBT workers, according to several people familiar with the Labor Department\u2019s plans who spoke to BuzzFeed News. Unlike the August directive, a regulation would carry more legal force and is tremendously difficult to undo.\u00a0It is unclear if the regulation will limit its scope to strictly religious corporations \u2014 for instance, a Jewish charity with a federal contract. The directive refers to the Supreme Court\u2019s decisions in\u00a0Hobby Lobby<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Masterpiece Cakeshop<\/i>, which concerned closely held, for-profit businesses with religious owners, not religious corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOFCCP plans to update its regulations to comply with current law regarding protections for religion-exercising organizations,\u201d says a notice on the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n When Trump took office he promised to honor a 2014 Obama executive honor protecting federal workings from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n Shocker, he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n The post Trump Planning Regulation to Allow Federal Contractors to Fire LGBTQ Workers for Religious Reasons<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n