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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: 1) by Scrutinizer on Friday April 07 2017, @05:37AM

    by Scrutinizer (6534) on Friday April 07 2017, @05:37AM (#490096)

    Of course you're not really the owner [of your house and/or business] [...] Most societies are built on fraud, often mixed with violence. Assuming you're American, consider how the land was violently taken from the previous owners and how much fraud was used in the treaty making when it was traded for.

    Agreed, in the defacto sense. This is why I point these things out using simple ugly language, as the vast majority of people within the USA seem to have never given any thought to it and are taken aback by the concept that, in practice, they don't own anything and as such they effectively live under naked criminal rule. The fact that fraud and force have been used through the overwhelmingly vast majority of human history is no excuse for tolerating it in one's own society in the here and now.

    Considering the sheer number of US people who at least claim to abhor fraud and coercion, in conjunction with the sheer number of small arms they collectively possess, these are powerful truths that are best revealed at every opportunity.