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The \u201csingle biggest victory in the history of the L.G.B.T.Q.-rights movement\u201d is what one combatant called the Supreme Court\u2019s decisions by 6 to 3 majorities in three cases decided on Monday, June 15, 2020. The decision<\/a>, the first written by Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch since he joined the Court, found it an easy job to interpret the meaning of \u00a0the Civil Rights Act of 1964\u2019s prohibition on job discrimination based on sex. The first two paragraphs of the opinion eloquently make his point:<\/p>\n

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This decision, with its clarity and sweeping language may have impact on many other government policies, among other things, President Trump\u2019s campaign to eliminate transgender rights in health care, the military, housing, and education. Scholars think that these policies cannot be maintained after these decisions.<\/p>\n

Conservative Christian groups are concerned that this ruling would affect their current practice, based on their interpretation of the basic tenets of Christianity, of not hiring or, upon discovery, terminating L.G.B.T. workers. On the other hand, Americans United for Separation of Church and State said that they and their allies \u201cmust come together to make clear the religious freedom is a shield that protects, not a sword that licenses discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dissents were vigorous. This is from Associate Justice Samuel Alito:<\/p>\n

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Later in the opinion he says that the \u201carrogance of this argument is simply breathtaking.\u201d In an appendix to his opinion, he listed over 100 federal statutes that prohibit discrimination because of sex. There may be fighting in the courts about it, but this decision is likely to have far reaching consequences for L.G.B.T.Q. people.<\/p>\n

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