So it's okay to fire gays for being gay again.

[RexCasual]

Another day in Trumpland. . .

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-says-employers-fire-195610268.html

Sheesh. The pain never ends

[Weekend Warrior]

1. Trump and his cronies are scum. There is even a "thanks Obama" in the article.

"It’s a little bit awkward for us to have the federal government on both sides of the case," observed Judge Rosemary Pooler at one point in the oral arguments.

But Justice Department lawyer Hashim Mooppan pressed on anyway, opposing the EEOC, which was still run by an Obama administration holdover when the case first reached the court.

"Employers under Title VII are permitted to consider employees' out-of-work sexual conduct," Mooppan told the judges. "There is a common sense, intuitive difference between sex and sexual orientation."

&quot It's) as conservative as it could possibly get: if having sex with a man is okay for a woman, it has to be okay for a man as well," Greg Nevins of Lambda Legal, tells Newsweek. "You cannot apply a different rule based on gender, according to the law. Apparently, that wasn’t conservative enough for the DOJ."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-says-employers-fire-195610268.html

[Bleacher Creature]

2. Apparently that's what's keeping the country from being great again.

This is like a nightmare that never ends.

[Weekend Warrior]

4. He is still going from campaign stop to campaign stop saying America sucks.

Does he know who the President is?

[dawg]

3. I don't think our country has ever provided adequate legal workplace protections ...

based on orientation. We need to have explicit federal laws on the books that are not subject to different administrations' "interpretations".

[CrispyQ]

5. The most depressing thing I heard this week was HRC, in one of her many interviews,

stating that our Constitution has no mechanism for dealing with a stolen election. So here we sit, putting our hope & faith in rule of law, when the other side flaunts their breaking of that law. They (who?) may take down the Con & some of his administration, but the rot that is the GOP - it will still be there. If you think they won't come up with someone worse than the Con, you're wrong. They will. Just look at what happened in AL this week.

I am just sick at what I see happening in this country. Sick. And horrified. And so heartbroken.

Crying...

[Madam45for2923]

6. Donald & Hillary, twinsies! This was totally foreseeable.

[dsc]

7. To be fair the court case was actually about something slightly different

whether sex in the 1964 Civil Rights Act encompasses sexual orientation. That is, at least in theory, different from whether such discrimination is a good thing or ought to be legal. That said, I think this administration would also oppose a law protecting gays.

[Doreen]

8. I remember during trump's campaign there was

this gay guy who was venomously supporting trump and saying how trump was going to protect the gay community. I wonder how he feels now?

[Behind the Aegis]

9. I more than half of the US it NEVER stopped being OK.

It is still legal to fire gay people in 27 states.