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A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act , which bans discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin, also covers homosexuality. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit , which handles cases in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, decided 8-3 that discrimination on the basis of "sex" also means discrimination on the basis of " sexual orientation ."   The ruling is significant because it recognizes special protections for LGBTQ status in existing law, making gay activists’ attempts to create LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws unnecessary. Progressives hailed the ruling. Vox  called it  "the biggest pro-gay rights legal decision since the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality." Lambda Legal , which handled the case,  said , “This decision is game-changer." "It’s the first federal appeals court decision to rule that anti-gay discrimination is banned

English: Logo of Target, US-based retail chain (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) After several years of support for homosexual advocacy efforts, the retail chain Target has joined the legal fight to dismantle the definition of marriage as one and one woman. The company announced this week that they have filed an amicus brief with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals backing “marriage equality.” In a blog post  Tuesday, Jodee Kozlak, Target’s executive vice president and chief human resources officer, said they filed the brief to oppose bans on same-sex “marriage” in Wisconsin and Indiana . She wrote: It is our belief that everyone should be treated equally under the law, and that includes rights we believe individuals should have related to marriage. … At Target, we have long offered comprehensive, competitive benefits to our LGBT team members and their families, often above what is legally required. We continue to do so today because we believe doing so is right for our t

Image via Wikipedia On Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit issued  a ruling which may have far-reaching implications for freedom of speech in schools as the issue of same-sex ‘marriage’ is debated in the United States .  “[A] school that permits advocacy of the rights of homosexual students cannot be allowed to stifle criticism of homosexuality ,” the 7th Circuit’s opinion reads. The case revolved around the Indian Prairie School District, which prohibited high school students from expressing their religious views about homosexual behavior on t-shirts. The court rejected Indian Prairie’s argument that school officials could justifiably put the First Amendment aside and censor t-shirts with the message “Be Happy, Not Gay ” to prevent some students’ from having their feelings hurt. “The school argued (and still argues) that banning ‘Be Happy, Not Gay’ was just a matter of protecting the ‘rights’ of the students against whom derogatory comments are directed.  But