Equality Act Streamlines Civil Law

[badger2]

House of Representatives passed the Equality Act earlier in the year. It would amend Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include "sex, sexual orientation and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation." In many states there are no legal anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people. In these states, LGBTQ people can be fired from their jobs, evicted from their homes, denied service from restaurants and stores or refused credit from banks simply because of their identity. It is now in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where it still has not been given a hearing. The only organized opposition to the Equality Act is religious in nature.

S.1006 Equality Act
congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1006
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[DGS49]

(1) Bullshit. It already includes, "sex."

(2) Sexual orientation would be a legal nightmare. Nobody knows anyone's sexual orientation unless the object person communicates that in some overt way. Questions abound: Is a celibate homosexual a "homosexual" for purposes of the law? Is an effeminate person who is perceived as homosexual protected? Would it be a defense that the accused DID NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT that the subject was homosexual? There is no evidence of significant discrimination against homosexuals. In fact, homosexual couples have significantly higher household incomes than heterosexual couples.

(3) Sexual identity is sometimes an appropriate reason for discrimination.

It is no wonder that his abomination is dying in committee.

 

[badger2]

There were depictions in Byzantium art of mannerist christs, infant christs pooping, ect. which reinforces the Charlie Hebdo account of an unrepresentable-though-representable Prophet. Post #2's political stance on the issue resonates with these things, especially the 'homosexual celibate,' recalling a certain Chinese emperor who having once met his favorite author at a party found out that he was a gay author. This is the same dilemma with religion in general: Would it be a defense that the accused DID NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT that the subject was religious? As far as no evidence for discrimination of homosexuals, that should be documented in the world's literature, the bible, for instance.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

House of Representatives passed the Equality Act earlier in the year. It would amend Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include "sex, sexual orientation and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation." In many states there are no legal anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people. In these states, LGBTQ people can be fired from their jobs, evicted from their homes, denied service from restaurants and stores or refused credit from banks simply because of their identity. It is now in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where it still has not been given a hearing. The only organized opposition to the Equality Act is religious in nature.

S.1006 Equality Act
congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1006
(URL functions if typed in the spacebar)

will that abolish Affirmative Action?