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Did the House Go by a Bill Letting Government Contractors Passion LGBT People?
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The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act which included an amendment that critics claimed would allow government contractors to discriminate against LGBT people.
The House passed the bill in May 2016, and has been stalled for months as the House and Senate hash out differences.
On 21 November 2016, various political representation groups and social media users began sharing a Huffington Post story dated 18 May 2016, which bears the headline, "House Passes Bill That Lets Government Contractors Flame People For Existence LGBT." Many were posting it as proof that the election of Donald Trump as president would ring in an era of increasing intolerance and the stripping of hard-won civil liberties for LGBT people.
However, that is not the case. As the Huffington Post accurately reported, the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act in May 2016 by a margin of 277 to 147, with the amendment in interrogate
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which contained language stripping nondiscrimination protections from LGBT government contractors. A number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers had previously engaged in multiple attempts to eliminate the provision.
As it was passed, a portion of the bill provides protections to “any religious firm, religious association, religious educational institution, or religious society” that receives a federal contract, and applies to “any branch or agency of the federal government.” The measure is aimed at combatting a 2014 executive order in which President Obama prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against people on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer was “outraged” by the measure and wrote in a declaration, “Congress owes it to LGBT workers and their families to ensure that they are equally protected by our laws and not singled out for mistreatment.” The version of the NDAA passed by the House must now be reconciled with the Senate version of the bill, which does not contain the “religious freedom” provisio
Congress Passes Annual Defense Bill Without Anti-LGBTQ Amendment
by Stephen Peters •
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, issued the following remark after the U.S House of Representatives and U.S. Senate passed the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The final version of the legislation did not comprise a House-passed provision that would hold dramatically expanded religious discrimination with taxpayer funds and undermined President Obama’s executive order prohibiting LGBTQ discrimination in federal contracting. The provision -- proposed by Representative Steve Russell (R-OK) under the guise of so-called “religious liberty” -- had been previously included in the House version of the bill, but not in the Senate version. Conferees did not involve it in the conference report.
“While we won this battle, the threat to fairness and equality remains. Now is the time for all of us to double-down on our work. Place your lawmaker’s number on speed-dial, recognize them for rejecting the Russell Amendment, and make plain you won’
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Protects Civil Rights and Merit-Based Opportunity by Ending Illegal DEI
Fact Sheets
PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND EXPANDING INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an historic Executive Order that protects the civil rights of all Americans and expands individual opportunity by terminating drastic DEI preferencing in federal contracting and directing federal agencies to relentlessly combat private sector discrimination. It enforces long-standing federal statutes and faithfully advances the Constitution’s promise of colorblind equality before the rule. This comprehensive order is the most important federal civil rights measure in decades:
- It terminates “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) discrimination in the federal workforce, and in federal contracting and spending.
- Federal hiring, promotions, and performance reviews will reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and difficult work and not, under any circumstances, DEI-related factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.
- The order requires OMB to streamline the federal contracting process to increase speed and efficiency, cut down cos
House Bill 2: What It Does and Does Not Do (A Private Sector Business Perspective)
H.B. 2 does not preclude private sector businesses or employers from adopting policies that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity nor control their decisions with regard to employee or universal access to their bathrooms.
However, H.B. 2 does exclude LGBT persons from the state public policy against discrimination in employment and access to general accommodations, prohibit local government from enacting laws prohibiting such discrimination, and prohibit transgender persons from using public agency multiple occupancy restrooms designated for the gender to which they identify.
H.B. 2 also prohibits local government from enacting non-discrimination and other workers’ rights laws and contractor requirements. And, it bars all individuals, not just LGBT persons, from bringing law suits for violations of the state general policy against discrimination in employment and public accommodations.[1]
Here is a more in-depth look:
House Bill 2 (“H.B. 2”) was enacted in response to the Town of Charlotte amending its non-discrimination ordin