Posted on 07/27/2017 11:35:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Trump administration told a U.S. appeals court that federal law does not ban discrimination against gay employees, a sharp reversal of the position former President Barack Obama took on a key civil rights issue.
The U.S. Department of Justice, in a friend of the court brief, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Wednesday that Congress never intended Title VII, which bans sex discrimination in the workplace, to apply to gay workers.
The department also said the court owed no deference to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that enforces Title VII and has argued since 2012 that the law bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The department's brief was in support of New York skydiving company Altitude Express Inc in a lawsuit filed by a former employee, Donald Zarda.
Zarda claimed he lost his job as a skydiving instructor after he told a customer he was gay and she complained. He died in a skydiving accident after filing the lawsuit.
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Good, Murderers are not protected why should any other criminal be?.
“He died in a skydiving accident after filing the lawsuit.”
Yes, he is incompetent, but he is gay, so you will have to use him a your skydiving instructor.
Equal opportunity, no preferential treatment.
I don’t care who you are, what color your skin is, where you came from, or what your sexual preferences are.
At the end of the day, you work for someone. If you can’t gain employment based on your experience, talents, or abilities but instead rely on tossing out the protected class card, you do not deserve to be employed.
This is part of a law that was signed by Bill Clinton in 1993, IIRC is AFTER he was impeached, which just might it illegal.
Gee, isn’t it quite curious that the GUY, a trained skydiving INSTRUCTOR, died performing that in which he was competent???
Now they may not be able to say the same thing about the American Disabilities Act.
Though I can’t imagine any Gay person trying to use the ADA for protection.
At least I can’t imagine one trying and surviving to see it go to trial.
If I was his employer I would have fired him because he was discussing his sexuality with a customer.
A totally inappropriate behavior for an employee of any business regardless of their sexual orientation or disorientation.
Undoubtably true. But Lindsay and Mc Shame will lead their fellow D’s to shove a LGTQMSLSD “rights protection” bill through PDQ
Umbrellas were designed to protect from rain, not falling vulture dung.
I’m a social Luddite. Keep ones private life private (and that includes off the internet) and it won’t cost one a job or other things it’s blamed for when things don’t go someone’s way.
I believe the Title VII law of the Civil Rights Act is from 1964.
If I’m correct, Congress was referring to protections for women and men by gender or sex as defined by chromosomes and plumbing, not by sexual orientation preference for girls, boys, sheep, goats, trees, and whatnot.
1964.
“The Trump administration told a U.S. appeals court that federal law does not ban discrimination against gay employees, a sharp reversal of the position former President Barack Obama took on a key civil rights issue. The U.S. Department of Justice, in a friend of the court brief, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Wednesday that Congress never intended Title VII, which bans sex discrimination in the workplace, to apply to gay workers.”
Yeehaw, a new day at the Dept. of Justice. I’m sure Barry Soetoro, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch are deeply saddened.
“The department also said the court owed no deference to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that enforces Title VII and has argued since 2012 that the law bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.”
Shut it down and X it out of the budget.
HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.
"U.S. Justice Department says anti-bias law does not protect gay workers"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Although the Justice Department is right about anti-bias laws not protecting gay workers, patriots are reminded the following.
The only civil rights that the feds have the constitutional authority to strengthen (via 14th Amendment) must be reasonably related to the protections that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect.
In fact, since the only race, sex and age-related rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect deal only with voting rights as evidenced by the 15th, 19th and 26th amendments to the Constitution, all federal civil rights protections outside the scope of voting rights, including politically correct gay “rights,” are unconstitutional imo.
What’s going on with federal civil rights laws is this imo. Career politicians are evidently willing to promise voters anything to get themselves elected, including promising voters all civil rights protections under the sun, most voters evidently not understanding that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific powers to make most civil rights protections.
This is particularly the case because of the 17th Amendment, low-information voters voting for federal senators who evidently don’t understand the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers any better than the voters who elected them do.
Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed here.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.
Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!
“he lost his job as a skydiving instructor after he told a customer he was gay and she complained. “
“The customer is always right!”
Seriously, kudos to Sessions for upholding the law as written.
McCain commanded a damn aircraft plus at most the crew. He has never hunted the damn enemy on the ground, looked him in the face or even seen a dead body on the ground. Dropping bombs from a thousand plus feet in the air or even making a TAC jet fighter run to support ground troops is not personal nor does the jet jockey have experience with leeches, scorpions, kraits, vine snakes, bamboo vipers etc. Yes, we need these pilots and going up north was no picnic. McCain was asked many times by friends to help JPRC plus others look for and recover our MIA/POW types remains and return them to their family remains. He was not helpful. Sorry, but; I have no use for him.
Obama knows Gay = Sex so he thought no one would notice
Perfectly legal, and rational interpretation of the original statute.
AND EXPLOSIVE!
This upends the bedrock of the Homo movement.
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