Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2019 13:11:36 GMT
...rights.
"The three cases are among the most significant on the high court's 2019 docket, and the justices' rulings are likely to come in the heat of the 2020 presidential campaign.
The challenges pick up where the same-sex marriage battle left off in 2015, when the court ruled 5-4 that states cannot ban gay men or lesbians from getting married.
"This is a more fundamental freedom than what was at stake in Obergefell," the same-sex marriage case won by James Obergefell and other LGBT plaintiffs, says Ria Tabacco Mar of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The challenge may be more difficult, however, for two reasons. The author of the high court's four major opinions expanding gay rights, Anthony Kennedy, retired last year and was succeeded by conservative Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And rather than claiming a constitutional right, the challengers must convince at least five justices that the word "sex" in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 incorporates sexual orientation and gender identity."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/07/gay-rights-employment-discrimination-battle-heads-supreme-court/3822694002/
Your right to work, your right to work as you identify. Because, of course, the religious right believes they have the right to deprive you of a job based on your sexual orientation or gender identity.
'Murika!
"The three cases are among the most significant on the high court's 2019 docket, and the justices' rulings are likely to come in the heat of the 2020 presidential campaign.
The challenges pick up where the same-sex marriage battle left off in 2015, when the court ruled 5-4 that states cannot ban gay men or lesbians from getting married.
"This is a more fundamental freedom than what was at stake in Obergefell," the same-sex marriage case won by James Obergefell and other LGBT plaintiffs, says Ria Tabacco Mar of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The challenge may be more difficult, however, for two reasons. The author of the high court's four major opinions expanding gay rights, Anthony Kennedy, retired last year and was succeeded by conservative Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And rather than claiming a constitutional right, the challengers must convince at least five justices that the word "sex" in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 incorporates sexual orientation and gender identity."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/07/gay-rights-employment-discrimination-battle-heads-supreme-court/3822694002/
Your right to work, your right to work as you identify. Because, of course, the religious right believes they have the right to deprive you of a job based on your sexual orientation or gender identity.
'Murika!
