{"id":532,"date":"2017-02-22T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T11:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowditch.com\/diversityinclusionma\/?p=532"},"modified":"2020-08-06T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:53:15","slug":"leaked-draft-executive-order-to-respect-religious-freedom-disrespects-the-lgbtq-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bowditch.com\/diversityinclusionma\/2017\/02\/22\/leaked-draft-executive-order-to-respect-religious-freedom-disrespects-the-lgbtq-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Draft Executive Order to Respect Religious Freedom Disrespects the LGBTQ Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, Donald Trump received recognition for being the first Republican presidential nominee to mention the LGBTQ community in his acceptance speech. If you didn\u2019t actually listen to his speech or read the transcript, you may have read a headline or heard a sound bite that said something like \u201cTrump vows to protect the LGBT community,\u201d and that may have brought you some comfort. A closer look at what he actually said in context, however, shows that the scope of the protection was limited to terrorist attacks. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist. This time, the terrorist targeted the LGBTQ community. No good, and we\u2019re going to stop it. As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology. Believe me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to January 2017, and Trump has been sworn in as president. He has set about drafting numerous executive orders purportedly aimed at protecting the American people\u2014including by extension the LGBTQ community\u2014from terrorist attacks. We all know by now how his the first executive order he signed on that front turned out. (Not good. Believe me). But what many people don\u2019t know is that at the same time the consternation about the \u201cTravel Ban\u201d was going on, another executive order targeting the LGBTQ community was apparently being vetted. The leaked draft order, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/go_ahead_establish_a_governmentwide_initiative_to_respect_religious_freedom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom<\/a> is alarming to say the least. As the Nation\u2019s Sarah Posner aptly states, the order \u201cseeks to create wholesale exemptions for people and organizations who claim religious or moral objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and trans identity, and it seeks to curtail women&#8217;s access to contraception and abortion through the Affordable Care Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/02\/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-lgbt-order-234617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The order was reportedly quashed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner<\/a> a couple of weeks ago. That may be good news for the LGBTQ community for now, but amidst the flurry of executive orders enacted by the Presidential administration, it may only be a matter of time before this order resurfaces in another form. 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