{"id":23493,"date":"2014-07-19T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T20:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=23493"},"modified":"2014-12-24T08:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T15:49:28","slug":"obama-to-issue-special-protection-order-to-gays-transexuals-no-religious-exemption-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2014\/07\/obama-to-issue-special-protection-order-to-gays-transexuals-no-religious-exemption-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Issue Special Protection Order to Gays, Transexuals; No Religious Exemption Allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u00a0<\/p>\n

I stole this headline from the place where I first found the story: New Advent<\/a>. I couldn\u2019t think of a better way to say it.<\/p>\n

According to a Washington Post article, President Obama plans to legislate with his pen by passing his own version of ENDA<\/a>\u00a0with an executive order. According to the Washington Post, \u201cthe White House\u201d said that this executive order will not include a religious exemption.<\/p>\n

It seems that everybody wants to do the work of Congress these days except Congress itself. We have courts legislating from the bench and our president rolls out one agency rule and executive order after another, passing laws all by his little self. Meanwhile, Congress is doing the only two things it actually does: engaging with itself in a perpetual partisan spitting contest and running for re-election.<\/p>\n

This president is unambiguously at war with religious freedom in this country. I say that with sorrow and reluctance. But the facts are the facts and his actions speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

He is continually doing things that stir up rage and resentment in the electorate. He\u2019s damaging this country with his blind hubris. I don\u2019t understand what he, as the sworn defender of the Constitution thinks he\u2019s doing by repeatedly attacking the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s consistent. He does these things, signs these agency rules, issues these executive orders. Then he lies about them later.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the long-standing, repeated pattern of behavior.<\/p>\n

I could go on and on here. I\u2019m disgusted enough to really roll. But I have to leave for church in less than an hour and then begin my Sabbath. I think I\u2019ll pray about it and hold my tongue until I have a chance to calm down.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here\u2019s the story. From the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

President Obama, resisting calls from several prominent faith leaders, will not include a new exemption for religiously affiliated government contractors when he issues an executive order Monday barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the White House said Friday.<\/p>\n

Obama announced last month that he would sign such an order after concluding that Congress was not going to act on a broader measure prohibiting discrimination based on sexual discrimination or gender identity by companies.<\/p>\n

Since then, faith leaders have urged him to include an exemption for government contractors with a religious affiliation, such as some social service agencies.<\/p>\n

White House officials said Friday that the new executive order would not include such an exception. But Obama will preserve an exemption put in place by former president George W. Bush that allows religiously affiliated contractors to favor employees of a certain religion in making hiring decisions.<\/p>\n

Gay rights organizations have criticized that earlier exemption, and they celebrated news Friday that Obama would not be broadening it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the strokes of a pen, the president will have a very real and immediate impact on the lives of millions of LGBT people across the country,\u201d said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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