WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court led Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr people om discrimatn employment, a roundg victory for LGBT rights om a nservative urt.
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- 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.
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 *
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? Congrs did not envisn that was protectg the rights of gay and transgenr workers.
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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.