Contents:
- HOW HOBBY LOBBY SPL THE LEFT AND SET BACK GAY RIGHTS
- DO THE HOBBY LOBBY DECISN THREATEN GAY RIGHTS?
- THE HOBBY LOBBY RULG IS SURPRISGLY GOOD FOR GAYS
- THE LEGACY OF THE HOBBY LOBBY CASE: PROTECTG ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN?
HOW HOBBY LOBBY SPL THE LEFT AND SET BACK GAY RIGHTS
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.
DO THE HOBBY LOBBY DECISN THREATEN GAY RIGHTS?
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. “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.
THE HOBBY LOBBY RULG IS SURPRISGLY GOOD FOR GAYS
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.
THE LEGACY OF THE HOBBY LOBBY CASE: PROTECTG ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN?
(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.
) Such an exemptn ma many gay-rights mpaigners nervo, but most accepted as a necsary polil promise to get the vot of morate Catholic Bishops reneged on the al, g out opposn to ENDA 2010 spe the exemptn.