“With no federal employment protections, too many LGBT workers are at risk of losing their jobs and their livelihoods,” HRC president says. HRC and others are urging Obama to issue an executive order banning contractors from LGBT discrimination.
“Banning federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT Americans, President Obama would extend the commitment to non-discrimination first made by President Roosevelt more than 70 years ago,” the ACLU’s head says. More than 50 groups, from NAACP to the AFL-CIO, join the latest effort to push Obama on the issue.
“We are committed to enacting legislation to protect all Americans. In the meantime, you are in a position to protect millions of American workers immediately,” the senators write. Obama has thus far declined to sign an executive order banning anti-LGBT job discrimination by federal contractors
White House press secretary reiterates a focus on Congress for action, even as advocates look to the White House for more leadership.
With the campaign over and the speech done, LGBT advocates will expect tangible action from the White House.
“P.S.: I know you’re doing your best.” Letters by some of the children who flanked President Obama during today’s press conference announcing executive action on gun control.
Neither the Congress nor the White House have taken action on a law to stop anti-LGBT job discrimination or an executive order to ban contractors from doing so. Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Jared Polis plan a new push.
Although marriage equality advocates have found recent success, anti-LGBT job bias measures have been stalled in Congress and at the White House.
Of the November votes on gay couples’ marriage rights, the Human Rights Campaign says in a new television ad that there is a “mandate for full equality.” The ad uses images of women’s suffrage and Martin Luther King Jr.
Hoping for further advances, the influential LGBT group also is calling for Obama to issue new protections for employees of federal contractors.
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