In what could be a troubling strike against the LGBTQ community, President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to sign an executive order on religious liberty as early as Thursday. In March 2015, Vice President Mike Pence ― who was then governor of Indiana ― signed a statewide Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law. In February, a document that was said to be a draft of Trump’s original religious freedom executive order was leaked to HuffPost, The Nation and other media outlets. Whether or not the executive order reaches Trump’s desk on Thursday remains to be seen. “President Trump is trying to create an America where my children could be turned away if a pediatrician doesn’t accept my wife and I.

Source: Huffington Post May 03, 2017 20:37 UTC