On Sept 15th, 2020 the Supreme Court , rejected the Trump administrations attempt to allow workplace discrimination against gay workers:
In case you are not familiar with this case, the Trump administration on Friday Aug 23, 2019 urged the Supreme Court to rule that a longstanding federal civil-rights law prohibiting sex discrimination doesn’t protect gay people in the workplace.This latest brief, submitted by Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco and other Department of Justice attorneys, argues that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin, “does not bar discrimination because of sexual orientation.”
“The ordinary meaning of ‘sex’ is biologically male or female; it does not include sexual orientation,” the brief states. “An employer thus discriminates ‘because of * * * sex’ under Title VII if it treats members of one sex worse than similarly situated members of the other sex. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, standing alone, does not satisfy that standard.”
Only a self loathing gay man would vote to re-elect a President who has the LGBT community in his crosshairs. With Justice Ginsburg's seat filled by a Trump appointee and with several elderly liberal Supreme Court justices unlikely to live through a second Trump term and replaced by Trump, you can expect the Trump administration to prevail in his next attempt to deny the LGBT community Title XII federal Civil Rightsanti-discrimination protections. I have no doubt that Trump will then attempt to exclude the LGTB community from ALL federal anti-discrimination protections including: Housing, Healthcare, Marriage...