Why is Trump taking Obama’s extreme line on LGBTQ laws?

Source: Conservative Review | January 31, 2017 | Nate Madden

After short period of waffling, the Trump administration has announced that it would uphold a contentious executive order signed by Obama in 2014. It will maintain the Obama administration’s position on LGBT “discrimination” provisions for federal contractors, leaving religious liberty out in the cold.

“President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community,” a White House statement reads. “President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election.”

One has to wonder how many on the social Right who have spent the past three days locking arms with the Left to criticize the president’s immigration suspension will have any energy left to kick up dust about this. Once everyone is done railing about an overhyped, misrepresented faux religious liberty issue, let’s just hope they have time to confront the administration on a real one. As of the time of this writing, there are naught but crickets.

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The problems created by the actual “non-discrimination” policy itself and its perpetuation are numerous. Firstly, nobody can honestly claim to “protect the rights of all Americans” while arbitrarily elevating the manufactured, positive rights of some while throwing the fundamental rights of others under the bus. The last eight years (bakeries being shut down, nuns being sued by the government … any of this ringing a bell?) should have more than proven this.

Secondly, these laws are a policy seeking a real problem. There is no concerted effort to drive gay people out of cubicles and onto the unemployment line, as much as some left-leaning outlets would like you to believe.

While the social Left — and now the Trump administration — hold up the executive order propositions as a means of eradicating some lingering class-based bigotry, all they really do is use federal government hammers to bash any and all moral and conscientious objectors out of the marketplace.

Finally, as others have pointed out for years, creating legal mechanisms based on abstract concepts of discrimination and a never-ending alphabet soup of identities derived from behaviors is an exceptionally bad precedent.

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While it’s not surprising in the least, the relative silence (at the time of this writing) of the LGBTQ lobby ought to be instructive, as should the near-total blackout from social conservatives regarding this latest news from the White House. This decision is the exact sort of thing that will determine if these concerns are going to be addressed by a President Trump, or if all those lines about religious liberty were empty campaign trail promises and political window-dressing.

One thing can be certain: Regardless of how many political favors the administration gives to the social Left, and fulfills the never-ending wish list of a never-ending list of behaviors masquerading as identities, this executive order decision will never get the media attention or the political returns that the West Wing wants out of it.

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