Posted on 02/26/2018 8:26:50 AM PST by GIdget2004
A U.S. appeals court in Manhattan on Monday ruled that a federal law banning sex bias in the workplace also prohibits discrimination against gay employees, becoming only the second court to do so.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overruled prior decisions and said that a worker’s sex is necessarily a factor in discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The ruling went against a court brief filed by the Trump administration in 2017 that said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not intended to provide protections to gay workers.
The 2nd Circuit revived a lawsuit by the estate of Donald Zarda, a former skydiving instructor who said he was fired after he told a customer he was gay and she complained. Zarda’s estate was backed in the appeal by dozens of large companies, including Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft Corp, CBS Corp and Viacom Inc.
Zarda died in a BASE-jumping accident after the lawsuit was filed.
Lesbian couple sues Health and Human Services after foster care application rejected Zarda’s former employer, Altitude Express Inc, and companies that have faced similar lawsuits have argued that when Congress adopted Title VII more than 50 years ago, it did not consider whether the law’s ban on sex bias included discrimination based on sexual orientation.
But lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender groups and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have increasingly argued that sexual orientation is a function of a person’s gender.
The 2nd Circuit agreed on Monday in its 10-3 decision.
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The 1964 law literally says nothing about gays. These judges are literally just making it up to fit their worldview.
Sodomy. The first sexual practice to have civil rights protection.
Probably won’t be the last.
A judge is just a lawyer....with too much power.
So do not hire them in the first place.....fire your libturd employees as well while you’re at it.
Amazing. Doesn't that completely, totally, 100% REVERSE what liberal activists have been saying about biological sex and gender?
Pretty soon, if a job candidate mentions that he likes dogs, or children, or brutalizing women, you’ll pretty much be obligated to hire the guy on the spot. Otherwise it’s discrimination because, you know, bestiality, pedophilia, and rape are all protected civil rights. Or something.
Well, if they can hold that the Constitution means things it doesn’t say, why not do the same with a mere federal statute?
Because Social Justice and stuff.
SCOTUS, needs kill this ruling, ASAP!!!
Don’t hire poofters, carpet munchers, or trannies. Controversy averted. If they complain, say you felt sexually harassed and #MeToo, so they had to go.
...and too little ability to survive in the marketplace.
Well, there ya go. That 14th Amendment sure is handy.
Guess the instructor died because he had other people pack his chute.
All hail the black robes!
They are gods among us mere mortals!
How do you prove you’re gay ?
How do you prove your still gay next week?
It’s strictly Behavior so it’s not like skin color etc
My favorite joke?
I’m a try-sexual
What’s that ?
I’ll try anything ! /sarc
“Guess the instructor died because he had other people pack his chute.”
I see what you did there.
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