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Trump Administration Says Employers Can Fire People For Being GayBY CHRIS RIOTTA ON 9/28/17 AT 3:56 PM
Why does President Donald Trump care about what gay people do in the bedroom?
The question came up this week, when a lawyer for Trump's Department of Justice argued that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect LGBTQ Americans from being fired because of their sexual orientationa complete reversal of the government's position on such matters under previous presidents.
The Justice Department argument Tuesday, before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, came in the case of Donald Zarda who claims he was fired by his company, Altitude Express, for being gay.
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RKP5637
(67,032 posts)3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)...an ignorant, incompetent asshole?
procon
(15,805 posts)Trump is pitting his racist, sexist, misogynistic government against the citizens of the United States. You don't have to look back too many years to remember how former administrations used inequality, bigotry and discrimination to sow chaos across the country in an effort to suppress groups of people that those regimes found to be unworthy. Trump says he want to take the country back, and it's perfectly clear what he means by that.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Trump was installed with the help of a hostile foreign government for that express purpose.
Divide/weaken/conquer.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Like she did a few months back...of course AFTER she pulled a lever for this CON JOB of a President so SHE could get her FAT promised tax cut. NOW that the shit has hit the fan and Trump LIED to her she'll be all upset again.
Don't look to me for sympathy Jenner.
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)That's why when domestic partnership benefits started vanishing immediately after Obergefell, I suggested it was way too soon to require same gender couples to marry to obtain benefits.
Company A employs spouse A and offers spousal benefits. Company B employs spouse B and either doesn't offer benefits, spouse B doesn't work enough hours to qualify, or even Company B's benefits may not be as good as Company A (different doctor pool, for example, out of pocket cap that is $500, rather than $5,000). For whatever reason, Spouse B needs benefits through her spouse. BUT - Company B is bigoted and would fire Spouse B if it knew she was gay.
Getting married requires creating a public record. Requiring the couple to marry in order for Spouse B to obtain benefits through Spouse A forces them to choose between employment for Spouse B and benefits for Spouse B.
Marriage was a huge step - but we do not have equality yet.
stopbush
(24,378 posts)anti-gay bullshit we see in this country.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Not a dimes worth's of difference between them.