Tmp’s first nomee wr a landmark cisn that says feral law protects gay and transgenr workers.
Contents:
- NEIL GORSUCH IS THE ANTI-LGBTQ NIGHTMARE HIS GAY FRIENDS HOPED HE WASN'T
- SUPREME COURT SAYS GAY, TRANSGENR WORKERS PROTECTED BY LAW
NEIL GORSUCH IS THE ANTI-LGBTQ NIGHTMARE HIS GAY FRIENDS HOPED HE WASN'T
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It is a watershed moment om an unlikely thor that means gay, lbian and transgenr workers are protected by feral civil rights law. “Sex means whether you’re male or female, not whether you’re gay or straight, ” he said.
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. The cisn is an unequivol victory for those argug that protectg civil rights the workplace clus protectg gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn.
SUPREME COURT SAYS GAY, TRANSGENR WORKERS PROTECTED BY LAW
The Supreme Court says the feral ban on discrimatn "based on sex" appli to gay, lbian and transgenr employe. * neil gorsuch lgbt *
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"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 Anthony Kennedy's retirement left many wonrg what would happen to gay and transgenr rights. Before Monday, Kennedy was the only jtice ever to have thored an opn supportg gay rights.
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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. Before jog the Supreme Court, he had two openly gay clerks.