Supreme Court Rules LGBTQ Workers Are Protected From Job Discrimination | NBC Nightly News

is a surprising ruling by a more conservative Supreme Court an important decision on civil rights, the

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said that a 56-year-old law, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits

discrimination

based on race, religion and sex, also prohibits employment decisions due to sexual orientation and gender identity because its forms of sexual

discrimination

is a victory for Gerald Bostock fired from a job in Georgia county after joining a gay softball team my heart goes out stopped. I was shocked even though I didn't ask for this trip. I was willing to do it because no one should do it.

They go to work afraid of losing their jobs because of who they are, who they love, or how they identify the six-to-three vote with Chief Justice John Roberts and Neal Gorsuch joining the

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s to gain more liberal members. Even more surprising was that President Gorsuch was President Trump's first Supreme Court. The court appointees wrote that the ruling Congress may not have anticipated this outcome when it passed the Civil Rights Act, he said, but he cited the limits of the framers' imagination, provided no reason to ignore the laws, required that only the Written word be the law that the LGBT community panicked. grieving that the retirement of their hero, Justice Kennedy, would cause them to suffer a major setback at the Supreme Court, instead it is a massive victory.

President Trump's other appointee, Brett Kavanaugh, was one of three dissidents who Judge Samuel Alito called a legislative appointment in the form absurd. In a court opinion, he noted that Congress has repeatedly refused to explicitly add sexual orientation as a category in civil rights law. The ruling is also a victory for Amy Stevens, who was fired when she told her boss she was transgender but died last month of kidney disease and did not live to see the victory, many gay rights advocates believed. this was even more important than the fight for same sex marriage, until today it used to be that a gay person could legally get married on Sunday and be legally fired on Monday, but not anymore, Hello fans of the

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