Post-Hobby Lobby, Religious Orgs Want Exemption From LGBT Hiring Order

[telemann.livejournal.com]

The day after the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling, a group of religious leaders sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking that he exempt them from a forthcoming executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT people. The letter, first reported by The Atlantic, was sent on Tuesday by 14 representatives, including the president of Gordon College, an Erie County, Pa., executive and the national faith vote director for Obama for America 2012, of the faith community. "Without a robust religious exemption," they wrote, "this expansion of hiring rights will come at an unreasonable cost to the common good, national unity and religious freedom." The leaders noted that the Senate-passed Employment Non-Discrimination Act included a religious exemption.

Source: Talking Points Memo.

Comments

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Yay, we're now Saudi Arabia or Iran, or whatever...

Thanks, Supreme Court!

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

"Narrow ruling". Religion doesn't play nice when it smells power traditionally.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I figured it was only a matter of time before stuff like this started cropping up.

This is what bothered me about the ruling. Not that IUD's and morning after pills weren't covered by that health plan, but this. Because people are going to try and do stuff like this.

[mudryikot.livejournal.com]

And actually - how hard a hit is this about, monetary speaking? How much in US for a month's supply of pills if you buy them cash out of pocket?

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Hold on a minute. This looks like that 'slippery slope' that Hobby Lobby's lawyers insisted would not occur...

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Putin where?