Posted on 06/15/2020 7:22:54 AM PDT by Stravinsky
Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that it is illegal for an employer to fire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, delivering a major victory in the fight for civil rights for LGBT people.
The court's 6-3 ruling extends the scope of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin and religion, to include LGBT people. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch, who authored the majority's opinion, joined the liberal wing of the bench in ruling that "an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII."
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You can fire anyone at anytime for any reason or even no reason. Just don’t give a reason
Done
Yeah that should really work in court. If you're firing your employee because they're gay then it would be best if you had a reason other than you're firing them because they're gay.
By having a paper trail showing that they weren't doing their job and that they had been warned about it.
Budget cuts, down sales, different direction, position no longer needed, merging position with a different position, eliminating or downsizing the department, or just don’t give a reason at all.
Just don’t say “I am firing you because you are a homo”
Easy peasy
Right. A gay person or trannie can be fired for a business reason (e.g., impermissibly missing work).
“So day care centers, for instance, will now have to...”
The problem is we have “Day Care Centers”.
Have they ruled on age as a protected class? As I am about to turn 67 this is a matter of material interest to me...
Or move to a different country..... I'm beginning to consider it.
If we’re going to have employment discrimination laws at all, then I think a law prohibiting employment discrimination based on sexual orientation is probably good policy. But that is clearly not the law Congress passed.
Gorsuch glosses over some pretty major logical gaps in his attempt to interpret “because of such individual’s . . . sex” to mean “because of such individual’s sexual orientation,” while pretending to be a textualist. Pretty disappointed in him.
It is not an issue about "being." It is about behavior. LGBT is about sexual exhibitionism. Otherwise, how would anyone know if someone identifies as LGBT.
If a kindergarten teacher crossdresses at home, no one cares. If he does a drag show for the kids, he should be fired.
The inability to fire a bad employee is and will be the downfall of us. No matter how bad they are, if they claim race, sex, sex confusion, you won’t be able to fire them.
civil right law, title 9, voting rights law ..... end of america.
Nuclear holocaust and Yellowstone erupting would do a good job of saving some People.
This decision is wrong, and breaks constitutional protections. I fail to see how “homosexuality” is anything, especially how it represents a gender under the cited federal law. Homosexuality is the sexual behavior which some people practice. Every day we discriminate on the basis of behavior. Our criminal laws discriminate on the basis of behavior. But somehow we’re not allowed to discriminate for this particular behavior?
Bullshit.
While I’m sensitive to the notion of the court acting as a Legislative body and I appreciate Alito’s dissent in that spirit, I think the SCOTUS made the right call in this instance.
In this day and age, civil rights are human rights. Who anyone chooses to love or sleep with should not be a factor in the eyes of the law. That sort of prejudice, which is all that it is, runs counter to the guiding principles of equal protection under the law and the notion of due process.
This decision doesn’t force employers to do anything. It prevents them from firing employees already acting in that capacity based solely upon sexual orientation. This shouldn’t have needed to be done. Our humanity and compassion should not have needed this sort of check and balance.
The fact of the matter remains, that if someone is so closed minded, prejudiced and hateful as to fire someone simply because they are gay, then chances are that same person will easily fabricate a bonafide reason to fire that same person.
I think SCOTUS got it right.
Stick your liberal psychobabble where the sun don’t shine.
We’re way beyond just plain old gays now.
This ruling also extends to the “transgender” myth. What this means is that mentally ill men who want to be women can now put on a dress, or mutilate their body, and they HAVE to be teachers, nurses, child care workers, etc.
No normal person can rightly think it’s a good idea having a man in a dress cleaning your wife, daughter, or grandma’s private parts in the hospital.
You closet libs are always telling us “it’s not as bad as all that” and yet it always is and worse.
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