States Ask Supreme Court to Limit LGBT Protection
Source: Bloomberg
A group of 16 states urged the U.S. Supreme Court Aug. 23 to rule that companies can fire workers based on their sexual orientation and gender identity without violating federal workplace discrimination law.
The states, led by Nebraska Attorney General David Bydalek, asked the justices to overturn an appeals court decision against a Michigan funeral home that fired a transgender worker. They said Congress didnt intend the ban on sex discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to cover bias against lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender employees.
The States purpose is to note that sex under the plain terms of Title VII does not mean anything other than biological status, Bydalek wrote. The friend-of-the-court brief is the latest development in a legal debate that has divided courts and exposed a rift within the Trump administration. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says LGBT bias already is banned, but the Justice Department disagrees.
A total of 13 Republican attorneys general, including those representing Texas, Alabama, Kansas, and Utah, signed on to the brief. Three GOP governors Matthew Bevin (Kentucky), Paul LePage (Maine), and Phil Bryant (Mississippi)also joined in the court filing.
Read more: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/states-ask-supreme-court-to-limit-lgbt-protection
sandensea
(21,635 posts)wolfie001
(2,235 posts)sandensea
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Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I accept as a rule of thumb by now that the Republican anti-gay crusader is, himself, secretly gay. No honestly straight person I know gives a shit about that.
sandensea
(21,635 posts)No one does hypocrisy like our friends in the GOPee.
Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)MOST homophobes are STRAIGHT.
sandensea
(21,635 posts)As a lesbian acquaintance of mine used to say, ain't nobody's business.
Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)The problem is too many STRAIGHT people give themselves a "pass" because they almost always like to claim homophobes are "secretly gay." Frankly, I see it as a form of heterosexist homophobia and it is tiresome. Are most racists secretly another ethnicity or desire to be one? Does that even make sense? Of course not! Are most Islamophobes secretly Muslim or desire to be Muslim? Again, no, of course not. Sadly, too many gay people spew this nonsense too because they know one or two homophobes who turned out to be gay, and of course there are those TWO stupid, MINOR studies that everyone falls over themselves to use as "proof" when it is clear they haven't even read the fucking study.
How about this: when dealing with homophobia deal with the behavior, the hate, and stop assigning sexual orientation, again, almost always a "secret gay" and accept most homophobes are going to be straight and not secretly harboring same-sex feelings. Along with this being homophobic, it is also biphobic because it totally ignores bisexuality as a sexual orientation.
sandensea
(21,635 posts)I try and I try, but...
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)Tell me again how both parties are the same. We just found out that the Senate blocked elections protection bill at the request of the White House. What will it take for folks to wake up?
Initech
(100,076 posts)Until their bullshit gets written into the constitution. We are in for some dark times ahead.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Deb
(3,742 posts)Welcome to NY!
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)DFW
(54,379 posts)I doubt the Supreme Court is going to take up such a case, referring to "settled law." The reps from the Inquisition States can then go home saying, "we tried to help God out, but them libbruls shot us down, and God is no match for libbruls (or some such)."
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Why I'm a lifelong effing Yellow Dog Democrat.
riversedge
(70,220 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)NEBRASKA, ALABAMA, ARKANSAS, KANSAS, LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, UTAH, WEST VIRGINIA, WYOMING, MAINE, and MISSISSIPPI. (Bloomberg Law)
Botany
(70,504 posts)I have had wonderful gay and lesbian friends and neighbors for years and a trans
person uses the locker room @ my gym and I have never really had any problems
so why do they have to so shitty?
You can't put that "gay toothpaste" back into the tube they are Americans just like the
rest of us and they deserve the same freedoms as every other American.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Botany
(70,504 posts)... have sex with men. Problem solved.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)They don't want to call attention to themselves for THAT. This has shown itself to be the case over and over again, and especially with so-called religious leaders.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)has a chance of becoming a justice? If he is confirmed we can kiss civil rights, personal liberties, the ACA, immigration, etc good bye.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in the pipeline will wait for Kavanaugh or whoever else they are able to get on the court. And there are usually more than one for every issue.
Business deregulation etc., as well, and of course those that could affect Trump-Russia. They're pantingly anxious to get Kavanaugh confirmed.
COUNTDOWN TO WHO GETS CONTROL OF CONGRESS: 73 days
jpak
(41,758 posts)Fucking Asshole.