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In a historic week, Hillsborough, Carrboro and Chapel Hill have become the first municipalities to pass these ordinances in the wake of the expiration of a key prong of HB142 last month. Durham City Council and Orange County Commission will take up LGBTQ ordinances on Tuesday, Jan. 19. According to polling, more than 67% of North Carolinians support non-discrimination measures.
Equality North Carolina and the Campaign for Southern Equality, NC-based organizations that work toward LGBTQ equality, urge local elected officials to pass LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances through NC is Ready for LGBTQ Protections (www.ncisready.org).
Would y'all please hold. Phone message for the GOP legislators. The 1950's just called. They want their era back!
No kidding. I fully expect them to come back with something grossly ridiculous like "gay and transgender people should self-identify by wearing a pink triangle" or "medical staff can deny services to LGBTQ people based on their religious believes"... I would love to one day not to worry about religious right and their hatred again secular laws.
You're welcome! Hopefully more of the Triangle will make the same moves soon and we'll be leading the state in this regard. Although I have no objection if and when Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Asheville, Wilmington and other municipalities sign onto this as well.
You're welcome! Hopefully more of the Triangle will make the same moves soon and we'll be leading the state in this regard. Although I have no objection if and when Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Asheville, Wilmington and other municipalities sign onto this as well.
To be fair, Charlotte did pass in 2016, and well....we saw where that led.
To be fair, Charlotte did pass in 2016, and well....we saw where that led.
There is a Supreme Court ruling from June of this year. There is already precedence and I do not think this will go belly up this time.
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In a historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects gay, lesbian, and transgender employees from discrimination based on sex. The ruling was 6-3, with Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's first appointee to the court, writing the majority opinion. The opinion was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's four liberal justices.
Two involved employees who sued after contending they had been fired because they were gay. One of them, Gerald Bostock, won awards for his work as a child welfare coordinator for Clayton County, Ga, but said he was fired after he joined a gay recreational softball league. As he told NPR in October, "Within months, I was fired for being gay. I lost my livelihood. I lost my medical insurance, and I was recovering from prostate cancer at the time. It was devastating." The second case involved Donald Zarda, a now-deceased skydiving instructor who was gay.
The third case was brought by Aimee Stephens, who had worked for six years as a male funeral director in Livonia, Mich., but was fired two weeks after she told her boss that she was transgender and would be coming to work as a woman. She died earlier this year, but her case lived on.
Gorsuch couched his opinion in terms of the text of the 1964 statute and its ban on discrimination because of sex.
"It is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating ... based on sex," the justice wrote. He gave the example of two employees attracted to men — one male, the other female. "If the employer fires the male employee for no reason other than the fact that he is attracted to men," but not the woman who is attracted to men, that is clearly a firing based on sex, he said.
The Gorsuch opinion drew two dissents, one from the court's other Trump appointee, Brett Kavanaugh, so that Trump's two appointee were in a verbal version of what Yale Law Professor William Eskridge called "trench warfare."
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