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.
Contents:
- WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
- TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU LGBT DISCRIMATN IS LEGAL BEE GAY MEN AND GAY WOMEN ARE TREATED EQUALLY POORLY
WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
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"“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. 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.
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.
The print's LGBTQ supporters say that the Tmp admistratn has ma gay rights a "non-issue, " cg his iendships wh gay men and his appotment of at least two openly gay feral judg. Tmp pick and former Actg Director of Natnal Intelligence Richard Grennell claimed Tmp is the "most pro-gay print history" a mpaign ad released on Twter Augt. In the ad, he c Tmp's efforts to help the gay muny, cludg fight agast the "homophobic regime" of Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah.
TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU LGBT DISCRIMATN IS LEGAL BEE GAY MEN AND GAY WOMEN ARE TREATED EQUALLY POORLY
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19Grennell, who is openly gay, listed the ways that Print Tmp has supported the LGBTQ muny Cred: Log Cab GOP. "I was shocked to disver that some of the powerful people have tried to pat my hband as anti-gay or agast equaly.
Patrick Bumatay, an openly gay Filipo-Amerin judge also selected by Tmp, was nfirmed to the US Court of Appeals for the Nth Circu December 2019. 19Tmp has said he's 'fe' wh the Supreme Court's cisn to legally regnize gay marriageCred: AP:Associated Prs. 19He said he wouldn't challenge the Supreme Court's cisn to legalize gay marriage bee 's already wrten to lawCred: Getty - Contributor.
When asked if he personally supports gay marriage, Tmp replied: "It's irrelevant bee was already settled. Sce takg office, dozens, if not hundreds, of cisns have been ma that make life materially worse for queer Amerins, not to mentn for tersectg and ally his opposn to life-savg legislatn like the Affordable Care Act to his appotment of homophobic judg, as well as symbolic acts like the banng of rabow flags at U. Appotg Homophobic JudgDonald Tmp has appoted an unprecented number of judg who hold extreme anti-LGBTQ+ views, and not jt on the Supreme Court.