WASHINGTON: The high court, in a 6-3 decision, said the broad language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlaws workplace discrimination on the basis of sex, should be read to cover sexual orientation as well. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch wrotehttps://t.co/cV3lQg3lBX
Please remember that Democrats almost all voted against Neil Gorsuch and warned in apocalyptic terms that he would assault LGBT rights and repeal gay marriage.
Gorsuch’s left-wing critics look more ridiculous than ever.
— Brad Polumbo ?? ?️? (@brad_polumbo) June 15, 2020
I have said that a ruling extending the Civil Rights Act to LGBT Americans would be far preferable to passing the awful Equality Act, which would gut the religious freedom protections in the bipartisan Religious Freedom Restoration Act. However, the Fairness for All Act would strike a better balance.
“The Government can’t force doctors to perform procedures that they are medically, professionally or morally opposed to performing. Remember, this is a ruling on the type of procedures, not the type of patients.”
Also from the LCR fact sheet:
So was anything “rolled back?” No – you can’t ‘roll back’ something that was never actually implemented.
So this isn’t LGB, just T(ransgender)? Yes, just gender identity.
So do medical care providers now have license to discriminate against transgender individuals for things like cancer, a broken arm or the common cold? The latitude now allowed is not in the patient – it’s in the course of treatment.
Update: Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Boystock v. Clayton County, it’s likely the revised rule will fall. That will make activists happy but means continued conflict with faith-based healthcare providers who the state will require to perform gender-reassignment procedures that violate deeply held faith convictions. As Justice Alito wrote in his dissent:
Healthcare benefits may emerge as an intense battleground under the Court’s holding. Transgender employees have brought suit under Title VII to challenge
employer-provided health insurance plans that do not cover costly sex reassignment surgery. Similar claims have been brought under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which broadly prohibits sex discrimination in the provision of healthcare. Such claims present difficult religious liberty issues because some employers and healthcare providers have
strong religious objections to sex reassignment procedures,
and therefore requiring them to pay for or to perform these
procedures will have a severe impact on their ability to
honor their deeply held religious beliefs.
To the secular left, that is of no consequence, but it should be to those who value the liberties historically protected by the U.S. Constitution.
BREAKING: Rep. Denver Riggleman, who became a target of conservatives after officiating a same-sex wedding last year, was ousted Saturday by GOP voters in a drive-thru district convention https://t.co/oVezKLetG2
VA GOP: Our state has turned blue. Let’s put a tiny number of hardcore right-wing activists in charge of selecting our candidates. This will allow us to fulfill cartoonish stereotypes by purging an incumbent, without a primary, because he officiated friends’ same-sex wedding.? https://t.co/YSNlhCLIXQ
Rowling has never made an ‘anti-trans’ tweet. This is ridiculous hyperbole and people are starting to wake up to the mass hysteria of “I saw Goody JK with the devil!” https://t.co/XkttxPe54M
The children’s book industry is witnessing the most horrific onslaught of abuse towards a much-loved, measured, brave & generous woman author. The overwhelming silence from other authors, publishers, book organisations etc is disgraceful. You should all be ashamed of yourselves
these types of photos always used to be so bizarre, alien, other worldly, had zero points of reference, couldn’t understand how on earth this could have happened. All makes 100% perfect sense now. Unbelievable how easily tipped into this society can be. pic.twitter.com/YvyIzQaqjB
NY Mag won’t run Andrew Sullivan’s column, the New York Times can’t run a sitting senator without a woke freakout, the Lancet published a fake study about HCQ, and public health officials have now supported protesting during a pandemic https://t.co/7ACb241mah
“The New York liberal press, once home to the most exciting journalism in the world, is being ruined — not from without but within. Its institutions are being taken over and dominated by a new-media generation who don’t care about free speech; who…?? https://t.co/lLJB7Q8VAA
If you think there’s momentum for institutional purges now, wait till some of the most zealous purge promoters are working with triple the budget and staff thanks to corporate guilt and celebrity bandwagon funding.
Bruce Bawer, reviewing David Horowitz’s latest book, writes:
“One demographic study after another has shown that the Democrats would never win another presidential election if they lost most of the black vote; and they richly deserve to lose the black vote, because their policies over the last half century have devastated black communities, black families, black schools, and black jobs.”
I think this goes a long way in explaining what we’re now seeing.