A LANDMARK civil rights law protects LGBTQ people from discrimination in employment, the Supreme Court has ruled.
A 6-3 vote decided that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act, Title VII, which bars job discrimination because of reasons such as gender, includes bias against gay workers.
The historic vote is a resounding victory for LGBT rights from a conservative court.
“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court.
“Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”
Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas dissented.
More to come.
