Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing
three major cases on discriminationagainst LGBTQ workers, the Department of Justice asked the court to legalize anti-gay workplace discrimination on Friday, arguing that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn’t protect LGBTQ workers from being fired because of their sexual orientation.
According to BuzzFeed News, an
amicus brief filed by the DOJ argues Congress never intended for the protections of Title VII, which outlaws discrimination “because of sex,” to extend to sexual orientation.
From BuzzFeed News:
But the administration says in its brief Friday that Title VII’s ban on sex discrimination only prohibits unequal treatment between “biological sexes,” as it argued last week in a related brief against transgender rights, in which the Justice Department said companies should be able to fire people because they are transgender as well.
Congress did not explicitly say that the meaning of sex in Title VII encompasses LGBTQ people, so, the administration argues, the law cannot apply to sexual orientation. Federal lawyers are asking the Supreme Court, for the first time, to explicitly limit the Civil Right Act’s protections to exclude LGBTQ people.
Wow just more erosion of violation of your god given rights...