A Proclamatn on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month, 2021 | The Whe Hoe

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Wh ls than two weeks left office, the admistratn of US Print Donald Tmp has falized yet another le rollg back nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people seekg the servic of health and welfare programs fund by the US Department of Health and Human Servic.

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EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS

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A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

Wh ls than two weeks left office, the admistratn of US Print Donald Tmp has falized yet another le rollg back nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people seekg the servic of health and welfare programs fund by the US Department of Health and Human Servic. Wh ltle fanfare on Monday, Print Donald Tmp signed an executive orr that LGBTQ advot say rolls back lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights and breaks a promise to that muny not to make such chang to existg executive orr revok key ponents of the Obama admistratn's prev executive orr banng feral ntractors om discrimatg agast employe on the basis of sexual orientatn or inty, gay rights advot say.

LGBT ALARM AS PRINT TMP SIGNS ‘RELIG LIBERTY’ EXECUTIVE ORRDISCRIMATNLGBT ADVOT SAY THE LATT EXECUTIVE ORR—BACKG ‘FAH IATIV’ FERAL AGENCI—IS YET ANOTHER ACTN THAT ULD ENURAGE DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBT PEOPLE.SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED MAY 04, 2018 12:32AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 03, 2018 3:00PM EDT CHIP SOMOVILLA/GETTYIN A THURSDAY MORNG ROSE GARN CEREMONY MARKG THE NATNAL DAY OF PRAYER, PRINT TMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR CREATG A NEW “FAH IATIVE” THAT WILL BE TASKED WH WORKG ON “RELIG LIBERTY” ISSU ACROSS FERAL AGENCI.“AS PRINT, I WILL ALWAYS PROTECT RELIG LIBERTY,” TMP SAID HIS REMARKS.THE ORR—FIRST REPORTED WEDNDAY NIGHT BY RELIGN NEWS SERVICE—WILL “HELP ENSURE THAT FAH-BASED ANIZATNS HAVE EQUAL ACCS TO ERNMENT FUNDG AND EQUAL RIGHT TO EXERCISE THEIR EPLY HELD BELIEFS,” TMP SAID.BUT IF THOSE LAST THREE WORDS—“EPLY HELD BELIEFS”—SOUND FAIAR, ’S BEE THEY ARE OFTEN ED TO JTIFY ANTI-LGBT LEGISLATN THE NAME OF “RELIG EEDOM.” INED, LGBT ADVOT SAY THAT THE EXECUTIVE ORR IS YET ANOTHER FERAL ACTN THAT ULD POTENTIALLY ENURAGE DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBT PEOPLE THE NAME OF RELIGN. “WE’RE VERY NCERNED BEE THIS ADMISTRATN HAS A PATTERN OF VG DISCRIMATN THE NAME OF RELIGN,” CALA TAYLOR, DIRECTOR OF CONSTUTNAL LIGATN FOR THE LGBT LEGAL ADVOCY GROUP LAMBDA LEGAL, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST SHORTLY BEFORE THE ROSE GARN EVENT.BASED ON S REPORTED SCRIPTN, TAYLOR SAID THAT THE NEW “FAH IATIVE” SEEMS TO BE “ACTIVELY SEEKG OUT OPPORTUNI TO FACILATE DISCRIMATN.” (AS TAILS OF THE ORR WERE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED MUT LATER, LAMBDA LEGAL TWEETED, “YIK, Y’ALL.”) RACHEL LASER, PRINT OF THE WATCHDOG GROUP AMERINS UNED FOR SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE, SAID A PRS RELEASE THAT THE ORR WAS “ONE MORE ATTEMPT BY TMP, CHEERED BY HIS EVANGELIL ADVISORY BOARD, TO REFE RELIG EEDOM TO MEAN THE EEDOM TO DISCRIMATE AGAST THOSE WHO DO NOT SHARE YOUR RELIG BELIEFS.”THE WHE HOE DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RPOND TO A REQUT FOR MENT ABOUT LGBT GROUPS’ NCERNS WH THE NEW “FAH IATIVE.”THE TEXT OF THE ORR, RELEASED SHORTLY AFTER THE ROSE GARN CEREMONY, NOT THAT THE IATIVE WILL BE LED BY AN AS-YET-TO-BE-APPOTED ADVISER HOED WH THE WHE HOE’S OFFICE OF PUBLIC LIAISON. THE IATIVE—OFFICIALLY LLED “WHE HOE FAH AND OPPORTUNY INIATIVE”—WILL “NSULT WH” RELIG LEARS WHO N PROVI “EXPERTISE” ON ISSU CLUDG “POVERTY ALLEVIATN,” “RELIG LIBERTY,” AND “STRENGTHENG MARRIAGE AND FAY”—AND THEN MAKE “REMENDATNS TO THE PRINT.” THE IATIVE WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED TO RM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE “OF NCERNS RAISED BY FAH-BASED AND MUNY ANIZATNS” ABOUT PERCEIVED VLATNS OF “RELIG LIBERTY” PROTECTNS. IT WILL ALSO REQUIRE ANY EXECUTIVE AGENCI THAT DO NOT CURRENTLY HAVE A FAH-BASED IATIVE TO TABLISH A “POT OF NTACT” WHO N “ORDATE WH THE [IATIVE’S] ADVISOR RRYG OUT THIS ORR.”MUCH OF THE IATIVE’S WORK, THEN, WOULD SEEM TO PEND ON WHO THE IATIVE’S ADVISER WILL BE, AND WHAT KD OF ANIZATNS ARE NSULTED FOR REMENDATNS. (THE TEXT OF THE ORR PROMIS TO INTIFY POTENTIAL LEARS TO NSULT “BASED ON THEIR EXPERTISE” BUT LGBT ADVOT HAVE LONG OBSERVED THE TMP ADMISTRATN’S PARTICULAR ZS WH ANTI-LGBT EVANGELIL LEARS, SOME OF WHOM WERE ATTENDANCE AT THE SIGNG.)“FREEDOM OF RELIGN IS A RE AMERIN VALUE, AND STARTG A WHE HOE FAH AND OPPORTUNY INIATIVE WOULD NOT BE ALARMG, EXCEPT FOR THE ANTI-LGBTQ EXTREMISTS AND ANIZATNS WHO HAVE THE PRINT’S LOYALTY AND HIS EAR,” SAID ZEKE STOK, VICE PRINT OF PROGRAMS AT THE LGBT ADVOCY GROUP GLAAD, A STATEMENT. “GLAAD WILL BE MONORG CLOSELY TO SEE WHO IS TAPPED TO LEAD THIS IATIVE, AND YOU N BET WE WILL HOLD THAT PERSON ACUNTABLE AND THIS IATIVE ACUNTABLE JT AS WE HAVE THIS ENTIRE ADMISTRATN SCE S BEGNG.”THE AMERIN CIVIL LIBERTI UNN WILL ALSO BE “WATCHG THIS IATIVE CLOSELY,” SAID DANIEL MACH, DIRECTOR OF THE ACLU’S PROGRAM ON FREEDOM OF RELIGN AND BELIEF.“FREEDOM OF RELIGN IS ONE OF OUR MOST FUNDAMENTAL AND CHERISHED RIGHTS,” MACH SAID. “BUT THAT EEDOM DO NOT GIVE ANY OF THE RIGHT TO HARM OTHER PEOPLE, TO IMPOSE OUR BELIEFS ON OTHERS, OR TO DISCRIMATE.”THURSDAY’S EXECUTIVE ORR JT SHY OF ONE YEAR AFTER PRINT TMP SIGNED AN “EXECUTIVE ORR ON PROMOTG FREE SPEECH AND RELIG LIBERTY” AT THE 2017 NATNAL DAY OF PRAYER CEREMONY—AN ORR THAT ANTI-LGBT ADVOT FEARED ADVANCE WOULD AMOUNT TO A SWEEPG “LICENSE TO DISCRIMATE.” AS THE DAILY BEAST’S JAY MICHAELSON REPORTED, THE FAL VERSN OF THAT EXECUTIVE ORR PRIMARILY WORKED TO BOOST THE POLIL POWER OF RELIG NONPROF ANIZATNS BY ORRG AN END TO ENFORCEMENT OF THE JOHNSON AMENDMENT, WHICH BARS 501(C)(3) ANIZATNS OM MPAIGNG FOR POLIL NDIDAT. (SUBSEQUENT EFFORTS TO FORMALLY REPEAL THE JOHNSON AMENDMENT, HOWEVER, FAILED, AS NPR REPORTED MARCH.)THIS JANUARY, THE TMP ADMISTRATN TOOK MORE SUBSTANTIVE ANTI-LGBT ACTN THE NAME OF “RELIG EEDOM” WHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVIC ANNOUNCED A NEW “CONSCIENCE AND RELIG FREEDOM DIVISN” TO BE HOED WH THE AGENCY’S OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. THAT DIVISN WAS TASKED WH HANDLG “RELIG EEDOM PLATS” OM HEALTH RE PROVIRS, AS THE DAILY BEAST PREVLY REPORTED.ALTHOUGH DID NOT CREATE MAJOR NEW POLICY—AS HHS NOTED A PRS RELEASE, “OCR ALREADY HAS ENFORCEMENT THORY OVER FERAL NSCIENCE PROTECTN STATUT”—LGBT ADVOT WERE STILL TROUBLED BY THE SHIFT PRRI SIGNALED BY THE NEW DIVISN.AT THE TIME, LAMBDA LEGAL CEO RACHEL B. TIVEN EMED THE DIVISN “ORWELLIAN” AND HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN LEGAL DIRECTOR SARAH WARBELOW LLED “UNNECSARY,” SAYG THAT EFFECTIVELY “ENURAG DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBTQ PEOPLE.”MUCH LIKE THE HHS CONSCIENCE AND RELIG FREEDOM DIVISN, THE NEW WHE HOE FAH AND OPPORTUNY INIATIVE DO NOT AMOUNT TO MAJOR NEW POLICY—ALTHOUGH TMP PROMISED HIS REMARKS THURSDAY MORNG THAT WILL “HELP SIGN NEW POLICI THAT REGNIZE THE VAL ROLE OF FAH OUR FAI, OUR MUNI, AND OUR GREAT UNTRY.”AND AS RELIGN NEWS SERVICE NOTED, PREV ADMISTRATNS—CLUDG THE OBAMA AND GEE W. BH ADMISTRATNS—HAVE TABLISHED FAH-BASED OFFIC WH FERAL AGENCI. THE KEY DIFFERENCE WH THIS NEW FAH IATIVE, RNS REPORTED, IS THE FACT THAT WILL ORDATE ACROSS ALL EXECUTIVE AGENCI, EVEN THOSE THAT DO NOT CURRENTLY HAVE FAH-BASED IATIV.ALTHOUGH THE WHE HOE FAH AND OPPORTUNY INIATIVE IS NOT THE SWEEPG “RELIG EEDOM” EXECUTIVE ORR LGBT ADVOT WERE FEARG AT THIS TIME LAST YEAR, LGBT ADVOT STILL SEE AS ANOTHER POSSIBLE STEP TOWARD ENABLG DISCRIMATN.“THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF THREATS THAT WE’RE FACG THAT ARE TRYG TO FACILATE DISCRIMATN JTIFIED BY RELIGN,” TAYLOR TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “AND THIS IS JT THE LATT.” SAMANTHA ALLEN

The group is opposg a "bathroom bill" that would require people to e public bathrooms and rtrooms that rrpond wh the sex on their birth Gay / APLGBTQ advot say they were particularly rattled by Tmp's Monday signg, sce revokg the pliance requirement would appear to make existg protectns agast genr inty and sexual orientatn discrimatn January, the Whe Hoe issued a statement rponse to panic over a mored executive orr that would severely impact LGBTQ rights — specifilly promisg not to over turn Obama's protectns for LGBTQ workers employed by feral ntractors. Pri is a time to rell the trials the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny has endured and to rejoice the triumphs of trailblazg dividuals who have bravely fought — and ntue to fight — for full equaly.

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