And the potential of that kind of enforcement action against discriminators– enabled by a Presidential EO– has an enormously positive ripple effect on all those entities– both public and private– who also do business with the contractor found to be discriminating. The word gets spread quickly– discrimination is simply bad for business.

We’ve already seen how Obama EO’s regarding hospital and health care discrimination have promptly and radically improved employment and treatment non-discrimination policies in places far more conservative than Richmond.

President Obama should start laying the PR groundwork now for a federal contractor EO– within a few months at the latest.

The President’s failure to do so seriously threatens ENDA’s passage on the HIll. Why should Congress act on ENDA when the president has not done the minimum of which he is easily capable of implementing with an EO?

The Obama Administration is really sending a de facto ‘back door’ message to Congress…
“Despite what I say publicly to you all, I’m not all that concerned about LGBT workplace discrimination.”