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BREAKING: Trump-Pence Administration Unleashes Sweeping Anti-LGBTQ #LicenseToDiscriminate

http://www.hrc.org/blog/breaking-trump-pence-administration-unleashes-license-to-Discriminate

Today, HRC strongly condemned the Trump-Pence administration’s decision to carry out a sweeping “license to discriminate” that puts millions of LGBTQ Americans at risk of discrimination, as well as release a new regulation that could deny millions of Americans access to critical contraceptive care previously guaranteed under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

“Today the Trump-Pence administration launched an all-out assault on LGBTQ people, women, and other minority communities by unleashing a sweeping license to discriminate,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “This blatant attempt to further Donald Trump’s cynical and hateful agenda will enable systematic, government-wide discrimination that will have a devastating impact on LGBTQ people and their families. Donald Trump and Mike Pence have proven they will stop at nothing to target the LGBTQ community and drag our nation backwards. We will fight them every step of the way.”

“It’s unconscionable that the Trump-Pence administration also today encouraged employers to exert control over the essential health care decisions of their employees,” continued Griffin. “The rule change on contraception will undoubtedly limit access to vitally important care that women and so many in the LGBTQ community rely on every day. We each deserve to have the freedom to live and plan our lives with dignity, and this administration’s reckless efforts to undermine the health care of millions of Americans must be stopped.”

In May, Donald Trump signed an order that threatened to exacerbate anti-LGBTQ discrimination by laying the groundwork for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to implement the license to discriminate announced today. Already, more than 50 percent of Americans live in an area of the U.S. where LGBTQ people are at risk being fired, evicted, or denied services because of who they are — and two-thirds of LGBTQ people report having faced such discrimination in their lives.

A preliminary analysis of the Trump-Pence administration’s license to discriminate indicates that LGBTQ people and women will be at risk in some of the following ways:

• A Social Security Administration employee could refuse to accept or process spousal or survivor benefits paperwork for a surviving same-sex spouse
• A federal contractor could refuse to provide services to LGBTQ people, including in emergencies, without risk of losing federal contracts
• Organizations that had previously been prohibited from requiring all of their employees from following the tenets of the organization’s faith could now possibly discriminate against LGBTQ people in the provision of benefits and overall employment status
• Agencies receiving federal funding, and even their individual staff members, could refuse to provide services to LGBTQ children in crisis, or to place adoptive or foster children with a same-sex couple or transgender couple simply because of who they are

The guidance instructs federal government attorneys on how to handle matters before them and instructs federal agencies to reconsider current and future regulations in light of this license to discriminate. It’s important to note this Department of Justice interpretation of existing federal law is not consistent in the way that federal courts have interpreted these issues and are subject to legal challenges.

When Jeff Sessions was swore into office that he pledged that he would PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES

And guess which dept, if there is a violation of the Americans with Disability Act and/or the Civil Rights Act a person files a complaint with ?   https://www.ada.gov/filing_complaint.htm

US Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Civil Rights Division
Disability Rights Section – 1425 NYAV
Washington, D.C. 20530

So, if the DOJ fails to enforce violations of the two above laws… is Attorney General guilty of violating his oath of office ?  Should he – and others in the agency, who are involved with not enforcing our laws… BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE ?

Jeff Session, upon being confirmed as AG… stated that he would be a “by the book” law enforcer… apparently “the book” that he was referring to has a LOT OF PAGES MISSING !

While this article is about the LGBTQ community… is this just another segment of our society that the Federal bureaucracy and this administration has decided that it’s “moral compass” is not aligned with those same bureaucrats ?  How many different segments of our 320 million population is this administration will – or already has – decided are not “morally aligned” with the administration’s and the country’s morals – as defined by our “over lords” residing in DC.  Of course, we “mere mortals” can DE-THRONE those over-lords at the voting booth. How many of the 52 senators that confirmed Jeff Session as AG… are up for re-election next year ?

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