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GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
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Rights lgs the urt’s history, protectg gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn and nfoundg those who thought he would be a reliable nservative on those issu. Jtice Gorsuch led a 6-to-3 majory clarg that gay and transgenr workers are protected by Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibs discrimatn based on race, relign, natnal orig and sex. “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.
”His ncln: “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 Kennedy played a pivotal role many of the biggt gay rights s of the last quarter-century and was the cidg vote and wrote the majory opn Obergefell v. Hodg, the 2015 se that tablished a nstutnal right to same-sex Jtice Kennedy retired 2018, gay rights advot said they feared that the urt was ls likely to support their e.
Instead he wrote an opn that was immediately hailed by gay and transgenr rights groups as a landmark his opn, Jtice Gorsuch employed a fundamentally nservative prciple — a leral readg of the words of a statute — to reach a cisn that ntrasts sharply wh the nclns of the other nservative jtic on the a dissent, Jtice Samuel A. Longtime gay iends have said they have always found him to be acceptg of them and even happy about who they are.
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Before jog the Supreme Court, he had two openly gay clerks. And the Epispal church he attend liberal Boulr, Colo., before g to Washgton weled gay Goodbm relled 2017 how he scribed himself to Jtice Gorsuch, at the time a judge on the Uned Stat Court of Appeals for the 10th Circu, durg an terview for a clerkship 2008: “I said, ‘Listen, I’m a liberal gay Jew om New England and you were appoted by Gee W.
Goodbm told The New York Tim that when he married his longtime partner 2014 — before the urt legalized gay marriage — Jtice Gorsuch was “thrilled for .
Tmp picked Jtice Gorsuch for the urt, some of those gay iends and former clerks predicted that would be difficult to pigeonhole his legal approach to the issue of gay rights when he beme a jtice.