President Obama’s July 21 Executive Order banning LGBT job discrimination by federal contractors did not include a religious organization exemption but did leave intact an existing exemption that permits faith-based federal contractors to consider religion in their staffing decisions. Various commentators have sought to interpret that religious hiring exemption very narrowly, such that a faith-based organization would not be able to reject a job candidate because his or her conduct violates the employer’s faith-based standards for employees. IRFA’s president says that such interpretations ignore real-life complexities and essentially simply assert the conclusion that they need to prove. His commentary is posted at Cornerstone, the blog of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center at Georgetown University.