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Appeals court: Homosexuality is a protected class like race and sex

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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 prohib...

Trump admin reverses Obama policy: ‘Gender identity’ not a protected civil right

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In a reversal of federal policy that pleased marriage advocates and angered LGBTQI groups, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a memo interpreting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as not intended to apply to transgenders . Attorney General Jeff Sessions wrote to the country’s federal prosecutors that on “all pending and future matters” the DOJ will go by what Congress originally intended and not add unforeseen deviances when enforcing laws regarding equal treatment on the basis of “sex.” At issue is the word “sex.” A section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 criminalized discrimination based on “sex.” Gay activists say that now includes sexual orientation and transgenderism. Strict originalists say the writers of the law clearly intended “sex” to mean male and female. Sessions defended his stand by saying it was a simple matter of the historical intent of legislators, and does not necessarily indicate a strategic change. The understanding is “a conclusion of law, not polic...

Christian school has right to refuse child from same-sex home: Ontario tribunal

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A Canadian civil rights commission has granted a Christian school the freedom to follow its own rules. The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) ruled that The Private Academy , an evangelical grade school, may turn down a lesbian guardian’s application for their adopted child to attend. The homosexual activists, who say they are Christian but do not go to church regularly, met with the school principal to get their ward admitted to a preschool program.  However, the Christian school — which does not receive government funding — has a moral code that requires families of students to attend a church and share the same biblical values the school advocates. After the principal said the couple’s same-sex “marriage” would clash with the school’s teachings, the lesbians sued for discrimination.   HRTO’s Jennifer Khurana determined that the school made “a complete defense to the allegations of discrimination. I agree.” The focus of the lawsuit is Section 18 of C...

Federal Civil Rights Law Does Not Protect Gay Employees

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The Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not prohibit discrimination against gay and bisexual employees. The DOJ’s brief was not solicited by the court or any party to the case. Rather, the Trump administration elected to weigh in with a pro-marriage stance, arguing that immoral homosexual Americans have no protection against workplace discrimination under federal law. Its decision is unsurprising in light of Attorney General Jeff Sessions ’ vigorous opposition to the immoral lust based LGBTQ agenda. Title VII does not explicitly outlaw sexual orientation discrimination in employment. However, it does forbid “discrimination … because of sex.” which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission incorrectly has stretched the meaning of sexual discrimination  to include immoral homosexuality.  Some Federal courts have agreed , and in April, the 7th U.S. Circuit Co...

Lesbian couple, both pregnant with boys, plans to raise ‘feminist men’

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American pop culture and the media continue their ubiquitous mainstreaming of all things LGBTQ , as  Redbook  magazine champions a lesbian couple in which both partners are pregnant. Celebrity Hollywood makeup artist Toby Fleischman and lesbian “wife” Lindsay Lanciault have used Instagram to show off their dual pregnancies . Both babies were artificially conceived using the same sperm donor, according to a  PopSugar story  on the two women. An  Instagram  post last month showed her and Lanciault with baby bumps. As is typical, most in social media cheered the lesbians on. Many of the comments responding to Fleischman’s Instagram post said their situation is “cute” and offered congratulations to the homosexual couple . One apparent lesbian, “sauceangeles,” wrote, “Congratulations. My wife and I also had overlapping pregnancies (both boys) and wouldn't trade it for anything. Our ‘twins’ are our world!” Fleischman and Lanciault had to adjust...

USA: Federal court rules gay rights are civil rights, discrimination is illegal

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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 ...

Pro-LGBT Clinton previously defended marriage as ‘sacred bond’ of man and woman

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Hillary Clinton in Hampton, NH (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Like the Democratic U.S. president she is trying to succeed, Hillary Clinton has done a 180-degree U-turn on the legalization of homosexual “marriage”—going from a religious-minded foe of genderless “marriage” in 2000 to a fervent crusader for it today as a supposed “constitutional right.” Most ominously in a post- Obergefell   America that is increasingly hostile to citizens who do not wish to participate in or validate same-sex “marriage,” Hillary Clinton is now a vocal opponent of “religious freedom restoration” laws like the one overturned in Indiana . These laws aim to preserve people’s right to live out their support for natural marriage before God (a belief Hillary shared pre-2013) and not to countenance sin. She also openly expresses hostility to faith-based citizens who refuse to bend their thinking on homosexual “marriage.” In that vein, Mrs. Clinton touts the federal LGBTQ “Equality Act,” which adds ...

North Carolina gov. sues Obama admin in response to threat over transgender restrooms

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The governor of North Carolina has defied the Obama administration , asking a judge to dismiss all legal threats against his state for enacting a law that allows public accommodations to determine their own restroom policies. “The Obama administration is bypassing Congress by attempting to rewrite the law and set restroom policies for public and private employers across the country, not just North Carolina,” said Governor Pat McCrory , a Republican. “They are now telling every government agency and every company that employs more than 15 people that men should be allowed to use a women’s locker room, restroom or shower facility.” The new litigation comes the day that the Justice Department set as a deadline for state officials to back down and tell the Obama administration “that the state will not comply with or implement H.B. 2,” the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act. After the city of Charlotte passed an ordinance requiring all public businesses to allow transge...