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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo it's okay to fire gays for being gay again.
Another day in Trumpland. . .
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-says-employers-fire-195610268.html
Sheesh. The pain never ends
Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)"Its a little bit awkward for us to have the federal government on both sides of the case," observed Judge Rosemary Pooler at one point in the oral arguments.
But Justice Department lawyer Hashim Mooppan pressed on anyway, opposing the EEOC, which was still run by an Obama administration holdover when the case first reached the court.
"Employers under Title VII are permitted to consider employees' out-of-work sexual conduct," Mooppan told the judges. "There is a common sense, intuitive difference between sex and sexual orientation."
" It's) as conservative as it could possibly get: if having sex with a man is okay for a woman, it has to be okay for a man as well," Greg Nevins of Lambda Legal, tells Newsweek. "You cannot apply a different rule based on gender, according to the law. Apparently, that wasnt conservative enough for the DOJ."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-says-employers-fire-195610268.html
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)This is like a nightmare that never ends.
Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)Does he know who the President is?
dawg
(10,624 posts)based on orientation. We need to have explicit federal laws on the books that are not subject to different administrations' "interpretations".
CrispyQ
(36,501 posts)stating that our Constitution has no mechanism for dealing with a stolen election. So here we sit, putting our hope & faith in rule of law, when the other side flaunts their breaking of that law. They (who?) may take down the Con & some of his administration, but the rot that is the GOP - it will still be there. If you think they won't come up with someone worse than the Con, you're wrong. They will. Just look at what happened in AL this week.
I am just sick at what I see happening in this country. Sick. And horrified. And so heartbroken.
Crying...
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)dsc
(52,166 posts)whether sex in the 1964 Civil Rights Act encompasses sexual orientation. That is, at least in theory, different from whether such discrimination is a good thing or ought to be legal. That said, I think this administration would also oppose a law protecting gays.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)this gay guy who was venomously supporting trump and saying how trump was going to protect the gay community. I wonder how he feels now?
Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)It is still legal to fire gay people in 27 states.