U.S. Supreme Court rules that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination

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U.S. Supreme Court rules that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination

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Pdf of the decision: The SCOTUS holds: "An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII."

Surprisingly, Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion.
"It is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex."
"Those who adopted the Civil Rights Act might not have anticipated their work would lead to this particular result.... But the limits of the drafters’ imagination supply no reason to ignore the law’s demands."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme ... witter_wnt
The Supreme Court issued its opinion Monday on a historic case about LGBT employment discrimination, with the majority deciding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, also applies to gay or transgender people.

"In Title VII, Congress adopted broad language making it illegal for an employer to rely on an employee's sex when deciding to fire that employee," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion. "We do not hesitate to recognize today a necessary consequence of that legislative choice: An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law."

It was a 6-3 decision, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Gorsuch joining the more liberal side of the court -- Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer.

Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, while Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas dissented.
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Re: U.S. Supreme Court rules that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination

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Okay, I am impressed and damned glad for this ruling.
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