Color Down the Drain
Trump’s Consideration of LGBT Rights
February 16, 2017
An up rise of major concern has swept the United States as rumor spreads of Trump’s latest executive order: “Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom.” Or to put it blankly, a nationwide legalization of discrimination against same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion and transgender identification.
According to White House spokesman Sean Spicer, the Trump Administration is “not getting ahead of the executive orders that we may or may not issue.”
“There are a lot of executive orders, a lot of things that the president has talked about and will continue to fulfill, but we have nothing on that front now,” expands Spicer.
Still, with the rapid pace at which President Trump has been issuing nationwide orders, millions of Americans have reason to be worried for their rights and safeties.
“If anything in this document were to become a federal law, it would be a national license to discriminate, and it would endanger LGBTQ people and their families,” presses Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO and president of the non-profit activism movement GLAAD.
As of now, it seems the only things that do exist are rumor, discussion and underlying concern. Nothing is expected to happen on the matter as of yet. But one thing is for certain: if American rights retrogress too much, President Trump will have more problems on his hands.