SCOTUS will tackle gay rights, protection for 'Dreamers' and religious freedom in its new term beginning next week.
, the Supreme Court will decide whether gay, lesbian and transgender employees are covered by existing discrimination laws. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion and sex, but the lower courts are divided on whether that last category covers sexual orientation.
Brian Sutherland, the lawyer for an an Atlanta-area man who was fired from a county government job after joining a gay softball team, says it does."One simply cannot consider an individual's sexual orientation without first considering his sex."But in a switch from the position taken under President Barack Obama, the Trump Justice Department argues that Congress never intended the law to include sexual orientation when it passed the Civil Rights Act 55 years ago.
For the nation's LGBT people, the issue involves"a more fundamental freedom than marriage," according to Ria Tabacco Mar of the American Civil Liberties Union."It goes to the very heart of the ability to work and earn a living."
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