New source confirms Obama plans to force federal grantees to hire LGBT people
A second source has come forward to confirm earlier Friday
Fax reporting that
the Obama administration intends to force Catholic and other Christian groups
to accept LGBT applicants in hiring.
The source, who insists upon anonymity, described a meeting held
for department and agency heads at the Old Executive Office Building next to
the White House where they were informed of the change in policy.
An official from the Obama administration told the group that
they would be required to add “sexual orientation and gender identity” to
hiring guidelines for grant recipients, just the same as the Administration
mandated for Federal contractors a year ago.
The source reported to the Friday Fax that any organization
receiving the grant could not discriminate based on ‘sexual orientation and
gender identity” in the hiring of an employee that worked on the program funded
by the grant or in seeking subcontractors. Additionally, they could not
discriminate based on ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ when
implementing the respective program.”
When the Friday Fax first reported this change last May the
administration, through the National Security Council, denied the change in
policy. Various faith-based groups who are Federal grant recipients also
received denials from their administration contacts.
Our source says the administration is lying when they deny such
a change is in the works.
The first source who came to the Friday Fax in May said agencies
were being asked to accept this new policy without an Executive Order and that
the State Department legal office has advised the White House this would not be
a legal matter but a matter of simply changing policy.
Federal contracting affects relatively few faith-based groups.
It is under Federal grants that Catholic and Evangelical groups receive Federal
money. There are many more, some say 50-1, grant recipients than Federal
contractors. It is under Federal grants that faith-based groups assist poor
people in the United States and around the world.
The Friday Fax reported in May that some Federal agencies are
hesitant to make the change but because of pressure from the White House are
reluctant to say so.
Such a change could be profoundly harmful to such groups that
will now be dragged into the public fight over “sexual orientation and gender
identity” where one government official has been jailed, and small business
owners have been fined and harassed out of business for resisting the new
sexual orthodoxy.
The second source who came to the Friday Fax last month says
Friday Fax reporting and subsequent storm of criticism last May caused the
administration to slow the process down but that the intention remains to force
faith-based groups to accept applications and therefore employment of those who
publicly oppose Christian teaching on human sexuality and marriage.
It is likely that some groups, perhaps many, will have to pull
back from Federal funding and close certain programs that now help the poor in
Africa and elsewhere.
Reprinted with permission from C-Fam.
