A whopping 130 major religious, education, civil rights, labor, LGBT, women’s, and health organizations are teaming up to ask President Obama to rethink a memo they say has been used to justify taxpayer-funded LGBT discrimination.
The groups sent a letter to President Obama asking him to review and reconsider at 2007 memo that “reaches the erroneous and dangerous conclusion that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) provides a blanket override of a statutory non-discrimination provision.”
In other words, the groups agree that the memo has been used to allow taxpayer-funded discrimination and that should stop.
“This Bush-era policy is based on faulty legal assumptions and is being used to put the government in the business of funding discrimination,” said HRC Government Affairs Director David Stacy in a media release. “By rescinding this flawed memo, President Obama can make clear that taxpayer money cannot be used for unjust discrimination – period. The President has an unprecedented legacy of advancing fairness and equality for the LGBT community, and with the limited time he has remaining in office, we urge him to solidify that legacy by taking action on this critically important issue.”
