Posted on 06/15/2020 7:25:08 AM PDT by John W
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that existing federal law forbids job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, a major victory for advocates of gay rights and a surprising one from an increasingly conservative court.
The decision said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate because of a person's sex, among other factors, also covers sexual orientation. It upheld rulings from lower courts that said sexual orientation discrimination was a form of sex discrimination.
Across the nation, 21 states have their own laws prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Seven more provide that protection only to public employees. Those laws remain in force, but Monday's ruling means federal law now provides similar protection for LGBT employees in the rest of the country.
Gay rights groups considered the case a highly significant one, even more important than the fight to get the right to marry, because nearly every LGBT adult has or needs a job.
They conceded that sexual orientation was not on the minds of anyone in Congress when the civil rights law was passed. But they said when an employer fires a male employee for dating men, but not a female employee who dates men, that violates the law.
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This is a challenge to religious freedom.
Companies can’t even ask your age or marital status. You think now they’re going to ask your sexual preference? LOL.
Who recommended Gorsuch for the job? Any idiot should have known that being educated at Columbia and then living in Boulder Colorado he was no conservative.
We know that’s not the intent because Senator Barney Frank filed multiple amendments to ADD transgender and homosexual protection to it.
Pure political pandering. Note they did this during alphabet mafia Ramadan (gay pride month).
And notice the ruling is during Alphabet Mafia Ramadan.
Apparently the list of nominees was drawn up by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.
Agreed. In fact, rather than having to have new laws created to give extra special rights to the LGBTQXYZ community, the SC just said there's no need. They are protected against discrimination just like everybody else. That's a good thing. It does not, however, protect the LGBTQXYZers from being fired for their acts.
In fact, rather than having to have new laws created to give extra special rights to the LGBTQXYZ community, the SC just said there’s no need.
Who recommended Gorsuch for the job? Any idiot should have known that being educated at Columbia and then living in Boulder Colorado he was no conservative.
Companies cant even ask your age or marital status. You think now theyre going to ask your sexual preference
WRONG. DESI recruiters still ask for scans of Driver’s License, Passport etc. Complained to the EEOC. The EEOC doesn’t care
Anti-discrimination laws are unconstitutional. It violates a citizen’s right to free association. Private businesses and clubs should be able to discriminate on any basis whatsoever. Only government must be banned from discrimination.
Black free market economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell are in total agreement. Anti-discrimination violate our freedoms and give government control over our lives and businesses. Discrimination has a price. If a business doesn’t want to hire someone because he is bald, then another business will be more than happy to have a bald, qualified employee.
No pun intended, I hope.
The knee jerk reaction was when Gorsuch was nominated in the first place and tons of FReepers blindly praised the pick and hailed him as a “proven originalist” because Trump said he was.
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