Douglas Laycock, professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia, said that past orders sustain a patchwork of protections for religious organizations. “And very important, the executive order creates no right for anyone to sue anyone else,” he told Christianity Today. “So gay rights groups cannot organize litigation against religious contractors. Only the contracting agencies can enforce this order, and they may quietly enforce it with attention to religious liberty – which is what this administration has mostly done so far.”