Is this good for the gays? The short answer is y and no -- for now.
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HOW HOBBY LOBBY SPL THE LEFT AND SET BACK GAY RIGHTS
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Meister, who is an out gay man, found The Civil Rights Agenda, an LGBTQ advocy nonprof anizatn to take on the kds of s. " Over the years, Green and his evangelil leangs served as the talyst for a number of disput, cludg claims of anti-Semism, homophobia, and evangelizg public schools.
But the major nflict that has epted the wake of that cisn has been between relig eedom and gay rights. The rultg ntroversy has spl gay-rights and fah groups on the left, wh wi-rangg polil fallout that some now fear uld hurt both chapter of the ntroversy is set to close on Monday, when Print Obama plans to sign a long-awaed executive orr banng feral ntractors om discrimatg agast gays and lbians, acrdg to a Whe Hoe official. Many proment gay-rights groups have now whdrawn their support om a top legislative prry, the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act, over the relig exemptn ntas.
DO THE HOBBY LOBBY DECISN THREATEN GAY RIGHTS?
“The relig exemptn bate has now been polarized to the pot where people are sayg, ‘All or nothg, ’” said Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, director of social policy for the center-left thk tank Third Way, whose rearch and activism on gay marriage have been stmental to that e’s mastream acceptance.
Some gay-rights and civil-liberti advot had lled on Obama to elimate that provisn. But the new orr will not clu a broar relig exemptn that would allow nonprof ntractors to refe employment to gays if they viewed as nsistent wh their fah.
(ENDA’s exemptn don’t apply to for-prof pani like Hobby Lobby, but would allow a Catholic school, for example, to fire a gay teacher or janor.