The Supreme Court Just Rewrote Our Civil Rights Laws

The Supreme Court recently ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which among other things bans employment discrimination on the basis of sex, extends the meaning of sex to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and transgender status. The Supreme Court got it wrong. The word ‘sex’—still today and when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964—refers to our biological reality as male or female. It doesn’t refer to our sexual orientations or gender identities.

READ — Gorsuch Helps Transform the Supreme Court Into the Supreme Legislature on LGBT Rights: https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/gorsuch-helps-transform-the-supreme-court-the-supreme-legislature-lgbt-rights

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