Supreme Court to consider whether Civil Rights Act protects homosexual/transgender workers...
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Lesbian, gay, and transgender activists have been working for decades to try to have sexual orientation and gender identity added to federal civil rights anti-discrimination protections. Now the Supreme Court is going to determine if those protections are, in fact, already there.
I always believed the civil rights act seemed like a redundancy - unnecessary. If the US Constitution/the Bill of Rights reign supreme as law of the land then to deny those rights to anyone for any reason other than criminal acts would be to violate the law of the land - right? Women, Blacks, Homosexuals, Poor People all as American Citizens have equal justice under the law...explicitly. right? I mean, the founding fathers did not say ...all men, except, women, blacks, homosexuals...