LGBT Groups to Trump: Sign the Anti-LGBT EO, and We'll See You on Court

It is not known whether President Trump is about to sign a sweeping anti-LGBT executive order, but if he does, LGBT groups plan to take him to court.

SAMANTHA ALLEN
05.03.17 3:30 PM ET

LGBT and civil rights groups were not surprised by reports that President Donald Trump may sign an anti-LGBT executive order on “religious liberty” on Thursday.
In fact, they’re already prepared to take legal action.

On a press call Wednesday morning, Human Rights Campaign legal director Sarah Warbelow said that “there is every indication that President Trump may issue an executive order creating a broad license to discriminate as early as tomorrow.”

“Obviously we need to see what it says but if it resembles the leaked executive order—if it’s going to harm LGBT individuals and women and religious minorities—we will absolutely be filing suit,” American Civil Liberties Union senior staff attorney Brigitte Amiri added on that same call.

In early February, there was widespread speculation that Trump would sign an anti-LGBT “religious freedom” executive order at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 2.

An apparent draft of that executive order was leaked to The Nation, with Sarah Posner reporting that it would “create wholesale exemptions” in various forms of anti-discrimination legislation for “people and organizations who claim religious or moral objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and trans identity.”

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