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Contents:
- GORSUCH DRAWS PERSONAL ATTACKS FOR BREAKG RANKS ON GAY RIGHTS
- NEIL GORSUCH IS THE ANTI-LGBTQ NIGHTMARE HIS GAY FRIENDS HOPED HE WASN'T
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
GORSUCH DRAWS PERSONAL ATTACKS FOR BREAKG RANKS ON GAY RIGHTS
While “policy arguments” to amend the law “are very weighty, Kavangh wrote, and while he agreed that “gay and lbian Amerins nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth” he uld not si wh Gorsuch’s terpretatn. 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.
NEIL GORSUCH IS THE ANTI-LGBTQ NIGHTMARE HIS GAY FRIENDS HOPED HE WASN'T
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.
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GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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 .