Showing posts with label gays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gays. Show all posts

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Trump's Labor Department wants to 'weaponize' right-wing discrimination and bigotry - Raw Story

Just in case you wanted to believe that the Trump administration isn't on a campaign to trample rights for Americans, here comes the Labor Department to shove a grapefruit in your face. Labor officials have made public a new rule—no Congress, needed, thank you—to allow companies contracting with the federal government who are "religion-exercising organizations" to ignore federal laws protecting the rights of gays, transsexuals, and who knows who else in hiring or workplace practices.....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trumps-labor-department-wants-to-weaponize-right-wing-discrimination-and-bigotry/

Sunday, May 5, 2019

The problem with ‘sincerely held religious beliefs’ | Freethought Today - Jim Curtis:

A recent claim being made by litigants and lawmakers as a legal justification to deny rights to certain minorities is that the claimants’ “sincerely held religious beliefs” give them an exemption from equal-opportunity laws. Two of the most visible cases in the public eye involve denial of services to gays and denial of health care to females by their employers...
https://www.freethoughttoday.com/vol-36-no-03-april-2019/jim-curtis-the-problem-with-sincerely-held-religious-beliefs







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