Indiana Supreme Court Okays Catholic School Firg of Gay Teacher

Contents:

• GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE
• 15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
• WORKERS N’T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT L
• LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS
• HOW IS IT STILL LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY?
• LAVENR SRE: U.S. FIRED 5,000 GAYS 1953 'WCH HUNT'
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
• SOME US CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS BELIEVE RELIG EEDOM MEANS THEY N FIRE GAY TEACHERS
• HERE’S EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. YOU CAN STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANS
• GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
• SUPREME COURT TO HEAR GAY-FIRG SE
• THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY

GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE

The Supreme Court agreed, holdg that “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. A set of s that me before the urt had asked the jtic to ci whether Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimatn on the basis of “sex, ” appli to gay and transgenr people.

Last week, the admistratn siarly falized a Department of Health and Human Servic le that exclus gay and transgenr people om discrimatn protectns unr the Affordable Care Act. But Gorsuch dismissed his fellow nservativ’ objectns, argug that “applyg protective laws to groups that were polilly unpopular at the time of the law’s passage — whether prisoners the 1990s or homosexual and transgenr employe the 1960s — often may be seen as unexpected. Today, however, a New York feral appeals urt took a major step toward rrectg that wrong, one that if adopted throughout the untry will fally protect gay and lbian people om beg fired bee of who they are.

15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY

This piecemeal approach to protectg gay workers means that a large number of people are protected some form, but that people the majory of stat are not protected.

In a briefg to the urt, the DOJ argued that sex is different than sexual orientatn bee someone n treat men and women equally while beg biased agast gay and lbian people. State Department fired hundreds of gay men and women, llg them sexual "perverts" who would be vulnerable to blackmail; 5, 000 ernment workers, cludg private ntractors, were publicly exposed and sent packg.

WORKERS N’T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT L

"The documentary, which is expected to be ready for the film ftivals this fall, also clus one of the last terviews wh Frank Kameny, a Harvard-ted astronomer, who was one of the first gay rights activists and died , nsired to be "grandfather" of the morn gay rights movement, was workg for the Army Map Service on classified missile projects the hop of beg an astront when he was years before the Stonewall rts New York Cy, Kameny led pickets at the Whe Hoe 1965 to prott the ernment firgs. "Chillg stori like Joan Cassidy's unrsre the fear that the people lived wh every day, aaid of losg their jobs, and all the people who never tried to fulfill their dream bee they knew they were not gog anywhere, " said Howard, who is gay. 'Wch Hunt' Agast Gays Lasted DesCassidy said she watched the "wch hunt" unfold as the Office of Naval Invtigatn began s csa to cleanse the civilian service of said many of her iends were lled : "They sat behd the big lights and started grillg them, sayg, 'We know you're a homosexual, bee your partner is the next room.

LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS

"Their parents would receive the dread letter: "We are sendg your homosexual child home, " she until that pot, Cassidy never equented lbian bars, bee was too dangero. "That would be huge, particularly the tim of outsourcg, " he said, cg a UCLA Williams Instute study timatg that a half-ln gay people work private pani who do bs wh the ernment.

Thirty stat still have no anti-discrimatn said that learng this history is important, bee the mass firgs set the stage for the homophobia that still persists today schools and the for Cassidy, she would have stayed on active duty. Specifilly, the Court nsired the s of Gerald Bostock, who was fired after his employer learned that he was participatg a gay recreatnal softball league; Donald Zarda, who was fired after mentng to a client that he was gay; and Aimee Stephens, who prented as a male when she was hired, but was fired after she told her employer she planned to “live and work full-time as a woman.

HOW IS IT STILL LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY?

Rather than disputg that they fired their employe for beg gay or transgenr, each of the employers argued that tentnal discrimatn agast employe based on their sexual orientatn or transgenr stat is not a basis for liabily unr Tle VII. ” However, unlike those other tras, “homosexualy and transgenr stat are extribly bound up wh sex…bee to discrimate on the grounds requir an employer to tentnally treat dividual employe differently bee of their sex. The Supreme Court said Monday that workers nnot be fired for beg gay or transgenr, a blockbter lg for LGBT historic 6-3 cisn was wrten by Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a nservative appoted by Donald Tmp.

Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill isn’t yet effect, but the hostile environment that surrounds the law the state’s K-12 schools has already potentially rulted a teacher’s firg. When Aimee Stephens went to work as an openly-transgenr woman -- a gutsy but liberatg cisn to reveal her te self -- she lost her Supreme Court on Tuday will nsir whether Stephens and thoands of transgenr Amerins are protected om employment discrimatn unr the Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars employers om termatg workers bee of urt will also hear s volvg a Geia child welfare servic official and a New York skydivg stctor who each allege they were fired bee they are gay. "Treatg all transgenr persons ls favorably than non-transgenr persons do not vlate that le, " Francis Zarda, seen here wh his partner Bill Moore, was fired 2010 by Altu Exprs, Inc., after tellg a ctomer that he was EstateDonald Zarda, a New York skydivg stctor, was fired 2010 after tellg a female client who was strapped to him for a jump not to worry about the close ntact bee he was "100 percent gay.

LAVENR SRE: U.S. FIRED 5,000 GAYS 1953 'WCH HUNT'

"Gerald Bostock, a former Clayton County, Ga., child welfare servic official says he was fired om his job bee he is Gerald BostockIn the se of Gerald Bostock, a Geia child welfare servic ordator, lower feral urts saw thgs 2013, after Bostock joed a gay softball league Atlanta, publicly revealg his sexual orientatn, he was sudnly subjected to an d and acced of mismanagement of state funds after a of exemplary service. "The three s, among the most high-profile of the Supreme Court's new term, uld enshre employment discrimatn protectns for gay, lbian and transgenr Amerins unr existg law. Thirty stat do Natnal LGBTQ Workers Center says rearch shows a quarter of the workforce reported experiencg discrimatn the past year -- half of which said the discrimatn negatively impacted their work Zarda, seen here an undated photo, died a base jumpg accint October Estate"In 20 years, 's gog to be pretty nceivable socially that employment discrimatn agast gays and lbians is legal.

"Goldste said that if the urt sis wh the employers, the opn is likely to be most and narrow, givg a nod to rapidly changg public opn on gay than three dozen high-profile Republins urged the urt a iend-of-the-urt filg to take a "mon sense, textualist approach, " argug that sexual orientatn and genr inty -- at their re -- hge on sex and should be of Amerin bs giants, cludg, Microsoft, Macy's, Nike and Amerin Airl have also weighed , askg the jtic to affirm discrimatn protectns for LGBT workers bee 's good for the U.

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

Instead, he was terrogated wh a seri of vague, leadg qutns that attempted to get him to adm he was had been out for years – and knew his ntract never stated he uldn’t be gay and teach at Valor – but shame-filled memori of his closeted years as a young man rose up that moment, as his job slipped away. ”The offer they ma was for Tonga to attend some form of “nversn therapy”, and when he returned to announce he isn’t gay, cut off ntact wh his fiance, scb his social media of any support for the LGBTQ muny, and nounce his support for them before the school. Outrage on the part of stunts, parents, alumni and alli over Tonga losg his job for beg gay is part of a s-long battle between anti-discrimatn laws and the right of private Christian schools (of which there are approximately 34, 500 the US alone) to relig sce the 1964 Civil Rights Act threatened the tax-exempt stat of Christian schools who refed to racially tegrate, relig schools the US have tangled wh social jtice activists seekg equal protectns for mory stunts and employe.

A nearly intil scenar volvg a gay mic teacher fired om a Catholic school played out only a short distance away at the same issue is further plited stat like Florida – where the le between public school and private relig school is sometim blurred. Steven Arz, a sixth-gra history teacher, found himself fired om a Seventh Day Adventist school – which is publicly fund wh $1m a year tax dollars and creds – after he was featured a Gay Wh Kids article where he discsed his adopted son. ”Block and the ACLU have found some succs ligatg the month, a feral judge led that the firg of the North Carola teacher Lonnie Billard om a Catholic school for beg gay was a vlatn of the Civil Rights Act, shuttg down the school’s attempt to argue that they had a relig exemptn om the law.

SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR

”This laid the groundwork for the followg generatn of evangelil lears such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Tim LeHay, who partnered wh the Republin party to stir up anger around issu evangelils prevly red ltle about, like abortn, dgs and the rights of women and gays.

Campaigns to overturn gay rights legislatn like “Save Our Children” Florida (led by evangelil superstar Ana Bryant), or California’s Prop 6, which sought to ban gay men and lbians om teachg public schools, both equated homosexualy wh pedophilia and acced gay teachers of beg sexually motivated their reer the villas were new, the tactic of gng up basels fears had been the rnerstone of whe flight to Christian schools a Jon Universy’s lack of black stunts was rooted s ban on terracial datg. When the universy eventually tegrated 1971, allowed only married black stunts to attend, and 1975 allowed sgle black stunts but nied “admissn to applints engaged an terracial marriage or known to advote terracial marriage or datg” openly opposg racial tegratn eventually beme an effective tool for galvanizg evangelil voters – replaced by racist dog-whistl – gays tegratg themselv to the Amerin fay remaed a potent touchstone for the Christian right.

SOME US CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS BELIEVE RELIG EEDOM MEANS THEY N FIRE GAY TEACHERS

“In 2004, evangelil lears were nng out of money and their voters had been fallg away, so they all got a room together to ci what issu would brg their flock back to the fold, and they cid on gay marriage, ” says Fzgerald.

HERE’S EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. YOU CAN STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANS

“And so they flood the natn wh anti–gay marriage ballot measur, and that not only helped get Gee W Bh elected to a send term, but the ballot measur sometim performed better than he did … They were agast gay people prciple, but they also thought gay teachers were a bigger threat to kids than anythg. While the Christian right views gay teachers as a threat to stunts, the Trevor Project’s rearch shows that “LGBTQ youth who have accs to an LGBTQ-affirmg school report lower rat of attemptg suici. Through their Gay Straight Alliance (which has to meet off mp) and a list of mands for school learship, the group aims to make their school a place where all stunts n feel safe and Guardian reached out to Valor high school to ment on Tonga and Valor for Change, but did not receive a ’s a mister?

While 81% of Amerins say gay teachers should be able to teach at elementary schools, relig schools terg to the remag 19% have been velopg a varied strategy for keepg them out of their classrooms.

GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS

“There are nstutnal arguments they make, that [beg forced to employ gay teachers] vlat their eedom of associatn, ee exercise of relign, but those have been rejected, ” says Joshua Block of the ACLU. ”So if Valor Christian high school wanted to say that bee Inoke Tonga, for example, led his stunts a prayer before a volleyball game, or spoke of the holy spir guidg them durg a game, uld his firg for beg gay fall unr a misterial exemptn om discrimatn laws?

) Now that the Jtice Department has clarified that se prev, more clive lgs by the Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn as legally merls, stat that lack LGBT non-discrimatn protectns are left wonrg which of those two feral agenci to abi York state recently add genr inty to s non-discrimatn protectns alongsi sexual orientatn (while Florida, spe experiencg a vastatg mass shootg targetg a gay nightclub Orlando last year, notably has not). The stat that actually bar discrimatn for both sexual orientatn and genr inty both the public and private sector are still the mory: 20 do so, pl the District of Electn ImpactBut spe the fact that ’s still legal for pani 28 stat to fire employe for beg gay or transgenr–and notwhstandg Tmp’s manift hostily to LGBT rights–there are signs this year that polil wds are blowg over that map a more clive directn.

Siarly, Buzzfeed published an article wh the headle, "The Tmp Admistratn Asked the Supreme Court to Legalize Firg Workers Simply for Beg Gay, " which reported that:. "The Tmp admistratn took s harst le yet to legalize anti-gay discrimatn on Friday when asked the Supreme Court to clare that feral law allows private pani to fire workers based only on their sexual orientatn. An amic brief filed by the Jtice Department weighed on two s volvg gay workers and what is meant by Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimatn 'bee of sex.

SUPREME COURT TO HEAR GAY-FIRG SE

' The admistratn argued urts natnwi should stop readg the civil rights law to protect gay, lbian, and bisexual workers om bias bee was not origally tend to do so. As such, the reports mentned above fairly summarized this set of circumstanc as the Tmp admistratn askg the Supreme Court to legalize firg lbian, gay and bisexual workers on the basis of their sexual orientatn. Gerald Lynn Bostock is a gay man who sued his employer, Clayton County, Geia, 2013, after officials fired him om his job as a child-welfare servic ordator attached to the unty's juvenile urt.

Bostock nied any wrongdog and sisted the te motivatn for his firg was homophobic discrimatn after his participatn a gay amatr softball league allegedly ed ill feelg towards him among some of his lleagu. His employer, Altu Exprs, termated his employment on the basis that the woman had plaed that Zarda, while engagg a tanm sky dive, had touched her appropriately, tellg her he was gay as a way of excg his actns.

THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY

Zarda also alleged that his boss (who ultimately fired him July 2010) had ma homophobic remarks to Zarda, had orred him not to wear pk clothg and to ver up pk toenail polish, as part of a pattern of alleged hostily towards Zarda, who was known to his boss and lleagu to be gay. If an employment policy or cisn would have an equally negative effect on a gay man and a gay woman, don't cross the thrhold of impermissible sex discrimatn, bee don't unfairly burn a homosexual person of one genr over a homosexual person of another genr.