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| Topic | Trump administration: Its legal to fire someone for being gay.. |
| pegusus123456 09/29/17 3:34:39 PM #30: | UnfairRepresent posted... pegusus of course defends this. Which part was me defending it, the part where I called Trump a jackass or where I just summarized the article? _Near_ posted... So the DOJ argument is actually based on precedent (which has been not to protect LGBT individuals), Read the article tho But the law has been interpreted to include protections for sexual orientation for decades, after multiple lower level district courts concluded beginning in 2002 that employees could not be fired simply for being gay. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in April that Title VII does in fact cover sexual orientation, noting that any other interpretation of the law would be "confusing and contradictory." --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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