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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. 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.
NEIL GORSUCH IS THE ANTI-LGBTQ NIGHTMARE HIS GAY FRIENDS HOPED HE WASN'T
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 .
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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.
Few liberal groups paid much attentn, engagg a fierce effort to keep him off the Legal, a gay rights anizatn, posted a statement January 2017 wh the headle “Neil Gorsuch Has an Unacceptable, Hostile Rerd Towards L. The cisn is an unequivol victory for those argug that protectg civil rights the workplace clus protectg gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn. Liberals are unrstandably cisn is an unequivol victory for those argug that protectg civil rights the workplace clus protectg gay and transgenr the big qutn is: How do a cidly nservative Supreme Court make a cidly liberal lg?
Gorsuch wrote the 6-3 cisn that the prohibn agast discrimatn on the basis of “sex” Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act also appli to gay and transgenr employe. Bh appotee who dissented agast the urt’s 2015 cisn legalizg gay marriage — some see his stance the LGBT se as a signifint parture om his reputatn as a stnch nservative jurist. Dpe his nservative bona fis, Gorsuch signaled early on the se that he was on the fence regardg the arguments of three employers who had fired workers for beg gay or transgenr.