Tmp Pri: Gay Republins on why they're backg the print

Contents:

• TMP ADMISTRATN ASKS SUPREME COURT TO LEGALIZE WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY EMPLOYE
• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

TMP ADMISTRATN ASKS SUPREME COURT TO LEGALIZE WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY EMPLOYE

Argug that ’s legal to fire workers for beg gay. 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. Wh an amic brief filed on Friday, the Tmp admistratn is askg the Supreme Court to sentially legalize anti-gay discrimatn the workplace. The Jtice Department’s arguments perta to the employment protectns offered by Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which are beg argued two Supreme Court s volvg gay workers October.

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

“Unfavorable treatment of a gay or lbian employee as such is not the nsequence of that dividual’s sex, ” the Jtice Department argued, “but stead of an employer’s policy ncerng a different tra—sexual orientatn—that Tle VII do not protect.

In the other se, a skydivg stctor, Donald Zarda, also claimed he was fired for beg gay. That brief also argued agast extendg Tle VII protectns to gay workers.

TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

“Most of Ameri would be shocked if the Supreme Court said was legal to fire Aimee bee she’s transgenr or Don bee he is gay, ” said Jam Esseks, director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn (ACLU) LGBT & HIV Project, an April statement on the Zarda se and the transgenr discrimatn se, R. The Jtice Department’s amic brief stat that is up to Congrs to amend Tle VII to ver anti-gay discrimatn, should choose to do so. ]The month of June was filled wh big moments for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr that monthlong stretch, the Supreme Court renred a sweepg cisn providg workplace protectns for gay and transgenr people.

Tmp, who durg his 2016 printial mpaign ed gay people as a wedge agast Mlims, whom he pated broadly as extremists, followg the shootgs at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub by a Mlim man. Tmp has signaled a willgns to publicly align himself wh some gay men and women, he selected a eply nservative nng mate Vice Print Mike Pence, and, as print, has systematilly dismantled protectns implemented by Print Barack Obama, pecially for transgenr over two months before Electn Day, Mr. Obama to support gay marriage.

Aln that had been expected June, blamg the lay on the now Tmp officials are turng to Richard Grenell, the openly gay former U.