Now the religious nuts want to get an excuse note from the government so they can practice legal bigotry against LGBT people. Hobby Lobby decision: can of fundamentalist worms. From Talking Points Memo: The day after the Supreme Courts 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. 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 letter didnt mention the Hobby Lobby decision directly. But one of the signees, Michael Wear, the Obama 2012 veteran, told The Atlantic that the court decision meant the administration would need to address such concerns. The administration does have a decision to make whether they want to recalibrate their approach to some of these issues, he said. talkingpointsmemo/livewire/religious-groups-lgbt-hiring-hobby-lobby
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:36:50 +0000
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