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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a law prohibiting discrimination based on one’s sex also applies to “sexual orientation.”  The case,  Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc. , was over whether homosexuality is a protected class under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But how is homosexuality a protected class when eveybody knows it is a sin. Homosexuality is not the new black, homosexuality is not a race, it is a sin. Perhaps adultery should be a protected class also? The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it is,  going against the Trump administration’s plain reading of the law . “We see no principled basis for recognizing a violation of Title VII for associational discrimination based on race but not on sex,” Chief Justice Robert A. Katzmann   wrote . An example of “associational discrimination” based on race would be if an employer fired a white male for marrying a black woman.   The court said the same reasoning would prohibit adverse employment decisio

Image via Wikipedia BOSTON ,  - The Massachusetts legislature has passed a bill that elevates cross-dressing or transgendered individuals to a protected class , and grants universal access to sex-segregated areas such as bathrooms based on personal “ gender identity or expression.” The measure, known as the “Transgender Equal Rights Bill” (H. 502 in the House and S. 764 in the Senate) passed the upper chamber on Wednesday in a voice vote. It’s unclear when the bill will receive final approval votes and be signed into law by Democrat Gov. Deval Patrick , a strong gay rights supporter. The bill  inserts “gender identity” as a protected class under the state’s hate crime law, and also makes it so that a school or other business would be violating the law if it rejected an applicant because he or she was a crossdresser. The pro-family activist group Mass Resistance said the bill would have far-reaching negative effects for traditional values in the public square, most notably in scho