Democrats and gay rights groups oppose Judge Gorsuch, but terviews wh his iends and legal experts suggt that his views are not so easy to terme.
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- NEIL GORSUCH REMARKS DURG SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS CASE SPARK CONCERN
- SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
- GORSUCH NOT EASY TO PIGEONHOLE ON GAY RIGHTS, FRIENDS SAY
NEIL GORSUCH REMARKS DURG SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS CASE SPARK CONCERN
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“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 PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
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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.
GORSUCH NOT EASY TO PIGEONHOLE ON GAY RIGHTS, FRIENDS SAY
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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. Gorsuch prs Colorado Solicor General Eric Olson to say that Colorado forced Jack Phillips, the anti-gay baker Masterpiece Cakhop, to unrgo a "retn trag program. Elenis se now beg heard by the Supreme Court prents a siar suatn, wh Colorado Christian web signer Lorie Smh claimg she has a First Amendment right to refe to create webs for same-sex upl' weddgs on the basis of her relig fah, spe the state anti-discrimatn remarks Gorsuch ma to the Colorado lawyer would suggt that the nservative jtice is currently the most vol judge the urt support of Smh's that don't equal a general hostily to LGBTQ rights om Gorsuch, who two years ago joed four Democratic jtic and even wrote the urt's majory opn for a cisn protectg the rights of gay and transgenr people the workplace.
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