Tmp Admistratn Approv Anti-Gay Discrimatn | Time

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 GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

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.

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

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. “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.