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Rubio: No More Transgender-Obsessed Justice Department Under My Presidency

Lisa Bourne : Dec 10, 2015  LifeSiteNews.com

"The executive orders would be to reverse the executive orders the president has made on things like gender equality in restrooms."

(Virginia Beach, VA,)—Florida U.S. senator and GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio pledged to reverse President Barack Obama's 2014 gender ideology executive order should he be elected president. (Photo by: Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock/via Lifesitenews)

Specifically referencing the recent buckling of a Chicago-area school district under the Obama administration's threats for not allowing a male identifying as transgender to use female facilities, Rubio said he would overturn Obama's moves to force acceptance of students' use bathrooms of the opposite gender.

"The executive orders would be to reverse the executive orders the president has made on things like gender equality in restrooms," he stated.

"You've seen some local districts and others have been forced to, you know, provide girls access to a boys' bathroom, and so forth," Senator Rubio said. "These sorts of things you've seen in Illinois, for example, but also ensure that we're not doing anything that at any part in our government that is putting organizations that are motivated by their faith or organized around their faith from having to violate the tenets of their faith, and that includes government contractors."

Rubio also said that it is not right for the federal government to force faith-based people to sin as part of doing business.

"There are many government contractors and small companies who provide services to the government who are faith-based people, and they are—they are being compelled to sin by government in their business conduct," he said. "That is not something we should be supporting."

In July 2014, Obama signed Executive Order 13672, which added homosexuality and transgender status as a protected class for the employees of federal contractors.

Since then, schools and municipalities have been under pressure from the administration to allow students suffering with the mental disorder gender dysphoria access to toilets, showers, locker rooms, and private facilities of the opposite gender or face...

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