Today: A Christian webse signer legally ref to work wh gay upl. Tomorrow: All kds of discrimatn are unleashed
Contents:
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
The news followed the Supreme Court cisn allowg a web signer to discrimate agast gay upl. * supreme court gay discrimination *
“The worry is that this provis a green light to any bs owner that they n refe service to any person on the basis of their inty, whether they’re gay or lbian, or Jewish or Black, or anythg, bee they have an objectn to those sorts of people beg their bs, ” said Kathere Franke, a profsor at Columbia Law School. In 2020, Gorsuch livered a massive w to the LGBTQ muny when he livered the majory opn a se that extend feral protectns to gay, lbian and transgenr workers. The cisn has already been hailed by the polil right as a historic w for ee speech and cried by the left as an unthkable setback for gay rights.
Kg’s words even more relevant is that isn’t jt gay upl who might be turned away by a bs owner who believ their marriage is a “false” one: anyone n ce ee speech as an exce to avoid givg Black people, women, the elrly, or even a child of Indian immigrants like me the same rights and accs to the marketplace that Whe cisgenr heterosexual male Amerins have. For while those power seek to discrimate agast gay Amerins for beg gay, Ain Amerins for beg Black, Asian Amerins for beg Asian and Jewish Amerins for beg Jewish, the tth we nnot lose sight of is that we are all Amerins. The urt majory holds that by that law, by fn, employers nnot fire people for beg gay or transgenr.
TOTENBERG: So here we have several people, gay and transgenr dividuals, who were fired or alleged that they were fired om their jobs bee of their sexual preference or bee of their sexual stat, the se of the transgenr employee.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * supreme court gay discrimination *
But when turned out that he was playg on a gay softball team, he says he was fired bee of other major person this se was Aimee Stephens, who is now ceased, who had worked for the Harris Funeral Hom Livonia, Mich., for six years when she cid she wanted to e out as a transgenr person transn. And the qutn here, both for the people who led the majory and the mory, was - do beg fired for beg gay, for example, unt as a discrimatn agast you on the basis of sex?
Bee discrimatn on the basis of homosexualy or transgenr stat requir an employer to tentnally treat the dividual employee differently bee of their sex, an employer who tentnally penaliz that employee for beg homosexual or transgenr also vlat the feral civil rights law. Essentially, they argue on the fn here that on the basis of sex do not clu someone who was fired for beg gay or someone who was fired for beg transgenr. So there's a lot more argug to be had here, but a signifint, signifint cisn for gay and transgenr rights.
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A momento 6-3 lgWHEN ANTHONY KENNEDY retired 2018, gay-rights supporters etted over the loss of a jtice who had anchored four expansns of gay and lbian rights.
The Supreme Court led that feral law forbids job discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and transgenr stat, a major victory for advot of gay rights — and a surprise om an creasgly nservative urt. * supreme court gay discrimination *
On June 15th the Supreme Court allayed those fears wh a momento cisn that protects gay and transgenr people agast discrimatn the to this story. Roughly half of Ameri’s stat have laws of their own protectg gay and trans workers; the rt do not.