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SCOTUS Routs Conservatives, Again
https://www.theamericanconservative.com ^ | June 15, 2020 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 06/16/2020 9:53:32 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination, handing the movement for L.G.B.T. equality a stunning victory.

The vote was 6 to 3, with Justice Neil M. Gorsuch writing the majority opinion. He was joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

The case concerned Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employment discrimination based on race, religion, national origin and sex. The question for the justices was whether that last prohibition — discrimination “because of sex”— applies to many millions of gay and transgender workers. It is hard to overstate the magnitude of this decision, and the size of the loss to religious and social conservatives. SCOTUS, the highest legal authority in the land, has declared that homosexuality and transgenderism are like race. If you disagree, you are on the side of Klansmen, in effect. This is not just the opinion of Democratic lawmakers, or columnists at The New York Times. This is now the law of the land. And it became the law of the land thanks to two Republican justices, Roberts and Gorsuch, who were loyal to their class in the clutch.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilrights; gorsuch; justicegorsuch; scotus
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To: tbw2

Sorry, but the ruling was about employment, not whether or not a man can use a women’s shower.


61 posted on 06/16/2020 12:24:16 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: rollo tomasi

An employer can still make whatever rules it wants. That means if the company says no special pronouns as a condition of employment with them, they can.
For instance, if a school says a teacher may not discuss politics, or sexuality of any kind as part of his teaching, then he keeps his preferences to himself.
Real simple.


62 posted on 06/16/2020 12:29:37 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

I doubt that’s really the story. Rush can’t bring himself to address the perfidy of the uniparty GOPe that he has been so cozy with. It is clear to me now that the Federalist Society judges that are supposed to be so conservative aren’t that. I take it to be more a plan for getting moderate/flippable judges named by GOP presidents who then at the right time go liberal.


63 posted on 06/16/2020 12:32:42 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: central_va

“You’re sick.”

No, I am realistic. The new cultural revolution isn’t going to revert to where it once was, unless Conservatives have the will to take it back, and I don’t see that happening. Do you?

The best thing we can do is teach our children what is right and wrong and let them make the decisions on how they want to live.


64 posted on 06/16/2020 12:38:54 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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To: tbw2

“Transgenderism is now protected under civil rights legislation. Want a social work or medical license? You must agree with these rules to get certified AND abide by them. Ditto foster parents and counselors.”

I would change one thing. Label bathrooms, locker rooms and other public facilities by sex and not gender.


65 posted on 06/16/2020 12:42:39 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

66 posted on 06/16/2020 12:43:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Ransomed

“Wasn’t the original case about a male funeral director who showed up for work wearing dresses? How is a funeral home supposed to compete with a freak directing things for their grieving families? Seems like this ruling would be a loss for the people who own the funeral home.”

I would assume people will not want to send their families bodies to that funeral home. Eventually the home would go out of business, which is their loss.


67 posted on 06/16/2020 12:45:07 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Liberals already intentionally conflate/confuse the two. Dude wants in? Identifies as a woman and he is.


68 posted on 06/16/2020 12:49:01 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“I would assume people will not want to send their families bodies to that funeral home.”

Thus the owners firing the dude who claimed to be a woman and showed up wearing dresses to work.

“Eventually the home would go out of business, which is their loss.”

Exactly. There are winners and losers because of this ruling.

Freegards


69 posted on 06/16/2020 12:57:13 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Wiser now
Well, the simpler solution is letting the employer hire whoever they want. Discrimination is not necessarily evil or bad. Behaviors are discriminated all the time. Plus, the opinion you favor props up the foundation to be forced to call a man by a female pronoun based on their MENTAL ILLNESS. You support discriminating against this



When it comes to the sodomite agenda, the Slippery Slope is not a logical fallacy when studying history and current trends.
70 posted on 06/16/2020 1:01:44 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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To: scrabblehack

Exactly. There goes the Supreme Court argument.

“Re-elect me and I’ll give you more gret justices like Gorsuch.” Oops.


71 posted on 06/16/2020 1:20:45 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: upchuck; All

Your DNA IS your DNA. But the ‘research studies’ back in the 90’s that ‘found’ that being gay is genetic have been refuted and are no longer cited.....except in Big Media and by die hard Liberals. The two ‘independent’ studies that found the ‘genetic link’ were NOT independent......and both were done by gay doctors. But you will never get Big Media or ANY LIB to admit that. The 2 most important influences on the personality disorder known as homosexuality are 1. Being brought up my only the mother, no dad in the home and 2. Being sexually assaulted by another male while under age 10. And even over age ten.......it’s called ‘imprinting’. Your first sexual experience tends to have a great influence over your eventual Sexual preferences.


72 posted on 06/16/2020 1:23:54 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: Wiser now

One’s sexual fetishes does not make an identity. Some people like the pull hair and bite. Should they be a protected class?


73 posted on 06/16/2020 2:25:17 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Wiser now
Sorry, but the ruling was about employment, not whether or not a man can use a women’s shower.

And you think that constitutes a wall, not a shove at the top of a slippery slope? They will not stop with this decision.

74 posted on 06/16/2020 2:48:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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To: originalbuckeye

Appreciate the info, thanks. My comment was directed more towards transgenderism. Being a queer doesn’t involve trying to change or suppress your DNA.


75 posted on 06/16/2020 4:50:59 PM PDT by upchuck (Windows 10 is just a fancy spying machine with troublesome, mandatory updates.)
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To: BillyBoy; Impy

The events around SCOTUS create an inevitable backlash. There’s no backlash to this week’s 2nd Amendment & gay civil rights cases.

The lefty judges act as if they are mainstream. During their confirmation.

If we have fake conservatives acting like originalists, we get the backlash without the benefit. Perhaps what we could try is some hard-line originalists acting like moderates. Until they get 6 on the court. Then they come out of the closet.

But the bottom line is that the politics of the country hasn’t permitted 6 originalists to be put on the court. Maybe next year. Currently, The majority of voters aren’t fed up with the judicial activists.


76 posted on 06/16/2020 7:40:09 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: NKP_Vet

So why was it we stopped Merrick Garland from being confirmed as an associate justice again?


77 posted on 06/16/2020 8:24:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Vermont Lt
Actually, Title VII had nothing to do with LGBT. It's Gorsuch who twisted intent to make LGBT a set of issues dealing with a person's biological sex.

All I can hope that, after this ruling, the Left won't move on to banning Deliverance.

78 posted on 06/16/2020 8:27:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

You will be made to care. You will affirm their sin and insanity or else you will be creating a hostile work environment.


79 posted on 06/17/2020 2:37:28 AM PDT by Theophilus (Make America Gag Again)
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To: NKP_Vet

Gorsuch supports children being raised by transvestites and having transvestites raise your children outside the home. Him first.


80 posted on 06/17/2020 2:44:14 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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