A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
Wh ls than two weeks left office, the admistratn of US Print Donald Tmp has falized yet another le rollg back nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people seekg the servic of health and welfare programs fund by the US Department of Health and Human Servic. * donald trump anti lgbt *
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* donald trump anti lgbt *
"“I am proud to jo 120 of my lleagu who ll on the admistratn to grant LGBTQ Amerins the same protectn and legal reurse others already have should our civil rights be vlated, ” Pappas that landmark lg, issued June 15, Jtice Neil Gorsuch wrote that “ is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex. ““Bee discrimatn on the basis of homosexualy or transgenr stat requir an employer to tentnally treat dividual employe differently bee of their sex, an employer who tentnally penaliz an employee for beg homosexual or transgenr also vlat Tle VII, " Gorsuch wrote for the while Thursday's open letter argu that the Supreme Court's Bostock lg go beyond Tle VII and appli to "several other feral civil rights law, " the opn of the urt said that whether "other polici and practic might or might not qualify as unlawful discrimatn or fd jtifitns unr other provisns of Tle VII are qutns for future s, not the.
Argug that ’s legal to fire workers for beg gay. The Jtice Department ma an unexpected move last July when stepped to a major feral lawsu to argue the Civil Rights Act of 1964 don’t protect gay workers om discrimatn.
DeSantis' mpaign shared a vio that attacked Tmp for his support of LGBTQ rights, promptg wispread backlash. Both ndidat have rolled back protectns for trans and gay people office. * donald trump anti lgbt *
Further, the Jtice Department was fightg agast a separate, tonomo feral agency that had supported a gay man's se.
The urt led favor of LGBT rights, but the Tmp admistratn hasn’t reversed s stance that ’s legal unr feral law to fire employe for beg gay.
In a surprise move last September, the Tmp admistratn supported a Christian bakery owner Colorado who refed to make a ke for a gay uple's weddg. Appotg a small handful of gay people out of thoands of nomatns and makg a very few -- and unfullfilled -- pledg n hardly qualify as acplishments. Joked about Pence’s sire to hang LGBTQ people: In 2017, Tmp joked about Vice Print Pence’s anti-gay agenda sayg “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!