WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments in a major LGBT rights dispute over whether a landmark decades-old federal anti-discrimination law that prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sex covers gay and transgender employees.
The Supreme Court delivered an important gay rights decision in 2015 legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. Its dynamics on LGBT issues, however, changed following the 2018 retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative who backed gay rights in major cases and wrote the same-sex marriage ruling.
A couple of hundred demonstrators advocating for LGBT rights gathered a short distance from the white marble courthouse on an overcast day in the U.S. capital. They chanted for equal rights and held signs including ones that read, “Do fire Trump. Don’t fire LGBTQ workers,” “Discrimination is bad for business” and “LGBT Americans power our economy.”
“This has to stop. The more and more we give to the homosexual community, the more and more this nation is going to be destroyed,” said Jacob Phelps, 36, from Topeka, Kansas, who held a sign that read, “Jesus will return in wrath.” “It’s very easy in the workplace, shut your mouth, do what you’re supposed to do.”
A ruling in favor of the plaintiffs would give gay and transgender workers greater protections, especially in the 28 U.S. states that do not already have comprehensive measures against employment discrimination. A ruling against the plaintiffs would mean gay and transgender people in those states would have few options to challenge workplace discrimination.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
When the law is allowef to doscriminate against tax paying citizens because of their sexual orientation, we all will be next!
SCOTUS, Love us or hate us, in the LGBT community, the reality is rights not granted equally to all are secure for none. ... And then they'll come for you.
No... LGBT communities are at the front of the lost logical associations with respect to equality for all! Even if a person is a bigot they have a right to live! Which most in this community preach equality, it’s really a one sided shaming to extort/destroy! Like most PC issues
If we want to see gender/orientation protected by law real fast, someone needs to start firing people for being straight.
and straight labor rights no longer bother anyone?
The trump admin is in court arguing that business have the absolute right to fire employees simply for being gay. The. Cruelty. Is. The. Point.
The Court, as presently constituted, is going to rule that the Civil Rights Act does not ban discrimination in these cases. This will require a legislative fix, which is why we need to pass the EqualityAct.
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