Donald Trump pledges to sign anti-LGBT law to permit religious discrimination
Source: Pink News
Donald Trump has pledged to repeal Barack Obamas LGBT rights orders and sign a law permitting discrimination.
Mr Trump was once a moderate within the Republican Party on LGBT issues, suggesting that people shouldnt be fired because of their sexuality.
But in a display of just how far he has sunk on the issue, the Presidential hopeful this week confirmed he would sign a extreme Republican-backed law to directly permit homophobic discrimination.
In a statement, Trump confirmed he would sign the so-called First Amendment Defense Act, which bans the government from taking any action action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person believes or acts in accordance with a religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or that sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage.
The broadly written law would effectively legalize all discrimination against LGBT people in all sectors from employment to retail to healthcare as long as the person discriminating claims it was due to their religion.
Read more: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/09/23/donald-trump-pledges-to-sign-anti-lgbt-law-to-permit-religious-discrimination/
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)pnwmom
(108,978 posts)what is constitutional or not.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,318 posts)So it would allow a bigoted employer to fire a woman, even if living with her partner but unmarried, if she became pregnant. Who knows, maybe they'd try to say someone only has to 'suspect' an unmarried person is having sex to allow the discrimination.
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)riversedge
(70,225 posts)hibbing
(10,098 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,147 posts)Total opportunist.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)What's next? Firing squads?
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)at least before he cozied up to those "stone the gays" fundy whackjobs in that "Christian" conference in Orlando, and cozied up to Tony Perkins.
I guess as long as he can use Gays to advocate attacks on Moslems, Gays are wonderful. That's how he champions all different kinds of American Peoples' rights.
He also "loves" the Blacks, as long as he can attack Mexicans and say Black Americans should have those migrant crop picking jobs, and dirty dangerous meat processing plant jobs.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)what if a first responder had come to the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting, and had then refused to treat the injured on the basis of his or her religion? Would that be OK with the Donald?
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Get him onstage under the spotlight, and don't let him get away with his normal "tell a transparent pathological lie" strategy.
To me, he's consistent in his inconsitencies. Every thing nazi he says, that's what he means. Everything that contradicts his nazi statements, that's the stuff he doesn't mean. He's consistently nazi, and his followers all know it.
He would create a huge deportation force, go to war with Mexico, drop nukes wherever he could, ban all Islamic worship and worshippers, pull out of NATO and give Putin free reign, eliminate the minimum wage and all gov regulations, punish women for abortion, privatize the VA, eliminate freedom of the press, promote all attacks on LGBTs, and all the other nazi stuff.
And he wouldn't NOT do all those things, even though he's walked back all those statements. His followers know he wouldn't NOT do those things, and they think their glorious leader and they are putting one over on all us normals, when they hear him say differently.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)He really doesn't care about anyone unless he can use them. He's a con and manipulator. He is self absorbed, only cares about himself.
He's already lived a pampered life of riches, so now he is driven by thirst for power. In my opinion, he is a raging psychopath.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)He's the worst thing the repugs have ever tried to foist off on the country. Hopefully, he's the last thing, too.
bucolic_frolic
(43,166 posts)So no free speech for news organizations, but free speech for
religious wackos who bake religion into birthday cakes is ok?
Just want to get it straight
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)store for him and other gay people That's assuming Milo Yiannopoulos is really gayand not just some agit prop prankster like O'Keefe
For those who don't know who Milo is check it out if you have the stomach
dawn frenzy adams
(429 posts)Apparently, the gay magazine Out is catching a bit of hell for this cover. The right whether it be its religious, racist, or political ideology, have always had a disdain for Gays. Milo is in bed with the worst of that lot. Why Out Magazine wanted to give this racist/misogynist cretin more notoriety is beyond me. I gather they are the chickens who like Colonel Sanders.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Chickens for Col Sanders is right.
Eugene
(61,899 posts)from hateful foreign ideologies.
Hateful domestic ideologies? Not so much.
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)DAY DOOK ARE HATE!
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Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)You are a schmuck a schmegege, and a putz all at once.
safeinOhio
(32,683 posts)he's fucking nuts.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)In fact, you were too kind.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)deplo(r)able will do anything to keep those votes, anything.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)and doubling, trippling down on the ultra right-wing fundie positions. Throwing LGBTs under the bus seems not to be a big deal for Donnie. He just gets uglier and uglier, doesn't he?
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)21st century Hitler. The similarities in many ways and the modus operandi are staggering. He's all about authoritarianism and scapegoating. Plus anything for a $. I bet a personality evaluation would reveal a true sociopath. He wants to be the first dictator of the US. The world should be shocked at this diabolical creature called Trump.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)so many people support this sociopathic creature. The guy is an extremely bigoted racist. WTF is wrong with so many Americans. Is about half of this country really that stupid, brainwashed and uneducated. I notice that often in the best places to live on earth, anymore, the US doesn't even make the list.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)A Trump Presidency is a nightmare for all except straight white folks.
duncang
(1,907 posts)I think it would still be a nightmare for the entire country. It would be a every day event waking up to what kind of shit did he do today.