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posted by on Thursday April 06 2017, @08:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the about-time dept.

The Chicago Tribune reports that the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals—which sets precedent in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin—ruled

that workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The plaintiff, a college teacher, said she was reprimanded for kissing her girlfriend, then was not given full-time work at the college and was dismissed. The college denied that it discriminated against her.

MP3 audio of the oral arguments is available.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @10:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @10:18PM (#489882)

    Annnd you can't see the future impact of allowing such decisions. It 100% results in discrimination and segregation, which incidentally is why we have these laws.

    Thankfully "geniuses" such as yourself are stuck complaining about it while most everyone else thinks "Yay society is getting less horrible!"

    Does this meet your troll quota for the day? Or will you continue like a gleeful fat little kid getting more cookies?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @10:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @10:43PM (#489901)

    Annnd you can't see the future impact of allowing such decisions. It 100% results in discrimination and segregation, which incidentally is why we have these laws.

    So, your rebuttal is "people are too stupid to govern themselves, so I want someone I like to rule over them"? Otherwise your retort looks like a baseless assertion.

    The story deals with a matter germane to the USA, and thus the concept of "I exclusively own the body I inhabit and all derivative works thereof" may be foreign to you. Its shorthand reference is the word freedom. Honoring freedom is hard. Doing anything correctly is hard. It's so much easier if you can just treat other people as chattel property, but I for one am firmly against slavery.