Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Now That The Court Is Packed

Sunday, December 02, 2018

Now That The Court Is Packed

We can only hope for the Supreme Court to step above politics and religion and judge us on the law.

These 6 upcoming U.S. Supreme Court cases will determine the future of LGBTQ rights
LGBTQ Nation
By Daniel Villarreal
December 1, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court has six cases available that could determine the future of LGBTQ rights nationwide, says Zack Ford of Think Progress. While the court hasn’t yet agreed to hear any of these cases, let’s take a quick look at them and the issues involved in each.

Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia – Gerald Lynn Bostock says he was fired from his position as a county child welfare services coordinator because he’s gay; his employer alleges that he mismanaged program funds.

Okay for us trans people way back in 1989 the Supreme Court ruled Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins case that sex stereotyping is a form of sex discrimination; in that case the court ruled that denning a promotion because a woman didn’t “look feminine enough” was discrimination based on Title VII. The trans community has used that argument to win Title VII discrimination cases, well now the lesbians and gays have used that argument to win a case which is now before the Supreme Court and our jobs are on the line.

The Supreme Court in a cop-out might narrowly interpret the cased based on the mismanagement of funds instead of Title VII.

The other cases mentioned in the article are:

Zarda v. Altitude Express – A gay skydiver was fired because he is gay... Title VII
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – A trans employee was fired because being trans is against the owners religious beliefs.
Trump v. Karnoski – The military ban
Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries – A do-over Colorado Masterpiece Cake case but this time the Human Rights Commission didn’t make the mistake of bring religion into its ruling.
Doe v. Boyertown Area School District – Which is about trans bathroom policy

In the last case…

The anti-LGBTQ legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is pushing the case. So far, courts have ruled against the ADF’s anti-trans reasoning.

Which really should be named more aptly Alliance Defending Bigotry.

We the LGBTQ community have a lot to lose this session, it could send us back to the fifties where we had to hide in the closet to keep our jobs and apartment.

1 comment:

WordsPoeticallyWorth12/2/18, 3:55 PM
Greetings from the UK. An interesting post. Blessings. Love love, Andrew.
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