{"id":2315,"date":"2020-06-29T13:54:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2020-06-29T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:54:03","slug":"united-supreme-court-case-provides-equality-discrimination-protection-in-the-workforce-for-lbgtq-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/united-supreme-court-case-provides-equality-discrimination-protection-in-the-workforce-for-lbgtq-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"United Supreme Court case provides equality, discrimination protection in the workforce for LBGTQ employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn a 6-3 opinion written by notoriously conservative Justice Gorsuch, the United States Supreme Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia<\/em>, 590 U.S. __ (2020). The opinion was released to the public on June 15, 2020.<\/p>\n

What is Title VII?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Title VII is a portion of the larger Civil Rights Act of 1964, the first truly significant civil rights law borne out of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education<\/em>, which legally ended segregation. The famous civil rights events found in our history books \u2013 from Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus to Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech \u2013 followed Brown<\/em>and led to the enactment of Title VII. After a dramatic congressional debate, it was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 In a 6-3 opinion written by notoriously conservative Justice Gorsuch, the United States Supreme Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, 590 U.S. __ (2020). 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