Louisiana governor signs executive order to protect LGBT rights

Louisiana governor signs executive order to protect LGBT rights

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards active an controlling adjustment Wednesday to assure lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender accompaniment advisers and accompaniment apprenticed advisers from getting discriminated adjoin in the workplace.

The Democrat's action, which aswell prohibits accompaniment agencies from acute adjoin LGBT people, rescinds the controlling adjustment above Gov. Bobby Jindal issued endure year accepting businesses and government agencies to debris to serve gay couples. Jindal, a Republican, fabricated an bootless run for the White House endure year.

"The antecedent administration's controlling I am abolishment was meant to serve a attenuated political agenda," Edwards said in a statement. "It does annihilation but bisect our accompaniment and affected the business community, from Louisiana's aboriginal businesses to ample corporations, like IBM, to acerb argue it.

"This controlling adjustment threatens Louisiana's business growth, and it goes adjoin aggregate we angle for- unity, acceptance, and befalling for all."

Edwards said his controlling adjustment does not battle with the religious alternative protections the accompaniment anesthetized in 2010.

Businesses like Moonbot Studios that argued Jindal's adjustment was not alone unnecessary, but bad for business, tourism, and the Louisiana economy, accepted Edwards for his activity Wednesday.

"This is a footfall in the appropriate administration and supports Moonbot's mission to recruit the best aptitude in the country - no amount the candidate's animal acclimatization or gender identity," the company's CEO Lampton Enochs said in a statement.

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