US Supreme Court backs protection for LGBT workers
from BBC News:
The top court in the US has ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the country’s civil rights laws.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court said federal law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, should be understood to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
The ruling is a major win for LGBT workers and their allies.
And it comes even though the court has become more conservative.
Lawyers for the employers had argued that the authors of the 1964 Civil Rights Act had not intended it to apply to cases involving sexual orientation and gender identity. The Trump administration sided with that argument.
But Judge Neil Gorsuch, who was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump, said acting against an employee on those grounds necessarily takes sex into account.
“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,” he wrote.
Members of the LGBT community across the US were celebrating on hearing the news.
Commentary from conservative Christians (newest at the top)
The Blindness of Justice Gorsuch’s Woke Textualism by
Lawyer predicts new and ugly chapter of the culture war after Supreme Court ruling by John Stonestreet, Christian Post
Stay tuned: Ceasefire in battles between LGBTQ rights and religious liberty?by Terry Mattingly, Get Religion
The Supreme Court’s transgender ruling undermines the rule of law by Trey Dimsdale, Anglican Ink
This Equality’s All an Act by Tony Perkins, FRC
Supreme Court Ridiculously Demands Everyone Pretend Sex Differences Don’t Exist, by Robert Gagnon, The Federalist
Just How Secular Should America Be? By Russell Moore, New York Times
Justice Gorsuch Just Opened Pandora’s Box, By Helen Andrews, The American Conservative
The US Supreme Court is confused about ‘sex’ by
Holding the Court in Contempt by Tony Perkins, FRC
Sen. Josh Hawley reacts to SCOTUS trans ruling: ‘The end of the conservative legal movement’, , LifeSite
Video: USCCB: Supreme Court has ‘redefined’ the meaning of ‘sex’ | EWTN News Nightly, with Ryan Anderson
Looking ahead: After SCOTUS ruling, some major faith groups still face LGBTQ battles, by Richard Ostling, Get Religion
Supreme Court rewrites 1964 Civil Rights Act by John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera, Christian Post
Et Tu, Gorsuch? by Michael Warren Davis, Crisis Magazine
How the Supreme Court’s trans ruling will reshape federal law and further marginalize Christians by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite
Supreme Court’s new LGBT decision makes a dangerous lie the law of the land by Phil Lawler, LifeSite
Gorsuch Takes the Road Less Gaveled by Tony Perkins, FRC
A Morally Empty Jurisprudence by Hadley Arkes, First Things
SCOTUS writing transgenderism into law the ‘Roe v. Wade of religious liberty’ by , LifeSite
‘Brazen abuse of our authority’: Alito, Kavanaugh criticize LGBT SCOTUS ruling Gorsuch, Roberts voted for by Mary Margaret Olohan, BPR Wire
A Striking Display of Sophistry by R R Reno, First Things
Was It All for This? The Failure of the Conservative Legal Movement by Senator Josh Hawley, Public Discourse
Supreme Court: Employment Law Protects Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition
U.S. Supreme Court Rewrites the Law on Sex Discrimination: What Can We Do? by Sharon Slater, Family Watch International
and from not-so-conservative Christians …
Episcopal leaders hail Supreme Court ruling barring LGBTQ workplace discrimination, Anglican Ink
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