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Graham: Firing gays is a ‘freedom our nation was founded on.’

Disgraced anti-LGBT+ preacher Franklin Graham is predictably raging in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that people can’t be fired for being gay or transgender. In a landmark six-to-three ruling on Monday (June 15), the court affirmed that LGBT+ people …

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This is how the SCOTUS ruling does NOT protect LGBT people.

In a 6-3 decision written by Neil Gorsuch, a Donald Trump appointee, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans employment discrimination based on sex, also bans employment discrimination based on…

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Is Neil Gorsuch the new Anthony Kennedy? Don’t count on it.

Conservatives are throwing a fit over the Supreme Court ruling that grants LGBTQ employees legal protections under federal law. Worst of all, the 6-3 majority opinion was written by Neil Gorsuch, hand-picked by the Federalist Society as a rock-solid purist…

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Who are the LGBT plaintiffs in the historic SCOTUS ruling?

The surviving plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that determined whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace on Monday said he is “ecstatic” by the justices’ ruling in his favor. “When somebody was finally…

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HISTORIC: SCOTUS rules firing workers for being LGBT is illegal.

In a historic development, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday federal law bars discrimination against workers for being LGBTQ, affirming long-sought federal protections for LGBTQ people in the workplace. The 6-3 decision, written by U.S. Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, determines…