GOVERNMENT/LGBTQ/RELIGION/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Trump administration has issued new guidance on religious exemptions for federal contractors that critics say grants them carte blanche to discriminate against LGBTQ workers, women, religious minorities and others.
The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs released Monday [Dec. 7, 2020] its final rule on exemptions to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and a related 1965 executive order instituting anti-discrimination requirements for federal contractors.
The provision expands exceptions to any contractors — for-profit or nonprofit — who ‘hold themselves out to the public as carrying out a religious purpose.’”
-Dan Avery, “Trump’s new religious exemptions for employers an invitation to discriminate, critics say,” nbcnews.com, Dec. 8, 2020