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• GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Supreme Court says you n’t be fired for beg gay or Freeman for The New York TimThe Edorial BoardThe edorial board is a group of opn journalists whose views are rmed by expertise, rearch, bate and certa longstandg valu. It is separate om the an emphatic w for civil rights, equal jtice and mon sense, the Supreme Court led on Monday that feral law bars employers om firg workers for beg lbian, gay, bisexual or vote was 6 to 3.

” And “an employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex, ” Jtice Gorsuch wrote. ”In separate s nsolidated for argument, three platiffs — two gay men and a transgenr woman — had sued their employers for firg them after learng of their sexual orientatn or transgenr do not matter, the urt said, whether the employer might have had addnal reasons for the firg. ” In short, this particular victory for gay rights was based not on the fundamental equaly or digny of gay and transgenr Amerins, as prev Supreme Court cisns have been; was based on the meang of a sgle opn also hts at a potentially ser obstacle on the horizon: claims by employers that beg prohibed om discrimatg agast gay and transgenr workers vlat their relig nvictns.

Such claims are likely to fd a sympathetic ear among this Supreme Court’s nservative majory, which has repeatedly voted to protect if not promote relign and relig now, however, Monday’s cisn is a victory to savor, the next major step a le of gay rights cisns stretchg back nearly a quarter century, and until now wrten solely by Jtice Anthony Kennedy.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Although he disagreed wh the majory’s opn, he wrote: “It is appropriate to acknowledge the important victory achieved today by gay and lbian Amerins. He did not jo the dissent wrten by Jtice Samuel we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 30 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Rights Are Civil Rights. Five years after the US Supreme Court clared a fundamental right for same-sex upl to marry, the jtic produced another landmark for the gay rights movement by lg that feral anti-bias law vers lns of gay, lbian and transgenr workers.

The lg jos the annals of high urt cisns over the last quarter century that have helped drive gay progrs on myriad onts, cludg the 2003 cisn strikg down statut that crimalized sodomy and a 2013 actn that validated a feral law that nied married same-sex upl the Social Secury and other benefs given oppose-sex married upl.

Gorsuch said the “msage” of the law is “simple and momento: An dividual’s homosexualy or transgenr stat is not relevant to employment cisns. That’s bee is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex. “This Court has prevly stated, and I fully agree, that gay and lbian Amerins ‘nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth.

The Tmp admistratn had argued agast Monday’s oute, and the lg may have seemed improbable after the 2018 retirement of Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who had been the thor of all gay rights opns datg to 1996 and was often the cidg vote on a bench riven on the cultural dilemma.

They were brought on behalf of two gay men fired om their jobs, as a skydivg stctor and a child welfare servic ordator, and on behalf of a transgenr woman who lost her posn as a funeral home director. He acknowledged that Congrs likely would not have anticipated Monday’s rult when passed the law 1964, but he said the prohibn on discrimatn “bee of sex” necsarily vers people who face bias bee of they are gay, lbian or transgenr.

We do not hate to regnize today a necsary nsequence of that legislative choice: An employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr fi the law. December 16Blood donatns by MSMs be December 16, 2020, the l changed, and now Gay men n donate blood unr the same ndns as the rt of the populatn. December 12Same-sex marriage be civil 2020, legal s have set precent for civil unns Bolivia after a gay uple has achieved a legally regnized civil unn.

Homosexual acts are not age of nsent be of nsent is unequal as the age of nsent for homosexualy is 24Conversn therapy be Law for the Protectn Agast Conversn Treatments (KonvBehSchG) bans providg, arrangg and advertisg nversn therapy. Sgle dividuals (whether gay or straight) have been allowed to adopt equally before marriage be marriage Costa Ri has been legal sce May 26, 2020 as a rult of a lg by the Supreme Court of Jtice. “An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex.

“There is simply no pg the role tent plays here: Jt as sex is necsarily a but-for e when an employer discrimat agast homosexual or transgenr employe, an employer who discrimat on the grounds pably tends to rely on sex s cisnmakg, ” the opn read. “Today’s cisn is one of the urt’s most signifint lgs ever wh rpect to the civil rights of gay and transgenr dividuals, ” said Steve Vlack, CNN Supreme Court analyst and profsor at the Universy of Texas School of Law. Bostock, a gay man om Geia who claimed that spe receivg good performance reviews as a child welfare servic ordator, argued he was fired bee of his sexual orientatn.

One of them, Gerald Bostock, won awards for his work as a child welfare ordator for Clayton County, Ga, but said he was fired after he joed a gay recreatnal softball league. But he add that worri about how the 1964 civil rights law "will tersect wh relig liberty are nothg new, " potg to the 1993 Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act as a "super statute" that may offer a potential lifele to employers who object, on relig grounds, to hirg gay and trans dividuals.

"We didn't see really anybody other than the Conference of Catholic Bishops e and make an argument that there are large numbers of employers who refe as a blanket matter to hire people who are lbian, who are gay or bisexual or who are transgenr, " said Karlan, who argued one of the Tle VII s before the Supreme Court October. He noted that the liberal Supreme Court of the 1960s, head by Chief Jtice Earl Warren, terpreted an immigratn statute that barred psychopaths om enterg the untry to apply to homosexuals.

However, the Hoe Appropriatns Commtee passed an amendment July 2018 that would allow adoptn agenci to refe gay upl based on their moral or relig beliefs.

The stggle for LGBT rights n bt be seen as a fight that will be ongog and take mment and persistence om LGBT people and supporters on the gay muny. The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence.

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai.

In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007. There also have been fairly large shifts acceptance of homosexualy over the past 17 years two very different plac: Mexi and Japan.

In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial. For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”). For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed.