Is The Obama Administration Playing Politics With LGBT Workers' Rights?

BuzzFeed - “Protecting the workplace rights of LGBT workers is a moral imperative,” Labor Department Secretary Thomas Perez says. In more than a year and a half, though, his department has remained silent on whether it is taking that action it can to help those workers. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Obama administration and Democrats are pushing hard on Republican House Speaker John Boehner to take action on the LGBT rights bill passed Thursday by the Senate, but officials in Obama's Labor Department are mum when it comes to their own actions to protect LGBT workers.On Thursday, Labor Department Secretary Thomas Perez issued a statement about the Senate passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, saying, "The arc of the moral universe bent a little more toward justice today. Protecting the workplace rights of LGBT workers is a moral imperative that is long overdue. We still have a long road ahead of us, but today's