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SCOTUS Declares you cannot discriminate against straight people

It was a high-profile legal debate at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday with potentially big implications for America's raging culture wars.

In the end, justices appeared to come to rare consensus -- to find what Justice Neil Gorsuch called "radical agreement" -- in the case of a straight white woman alleging "reverse discrimination" by her employer on the basis of sexual orientation.

The plaintiff, Marlean Ames, had asked the justices to reverse a lower court ruling that tossed out her employment discrimination lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Youth Services, where she had worked for more than 15 years.

After a little under an hour of oral arguments, it appears she will get her wish.

Ames alleges her employer denied her a promotion and later demoted her, in both cases selecting gay candidates instead who were less qualified. Her supervisor at the time was also gay.
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DogMan · 61-69, M
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual orientation.

The Supreme Court has said that plaintiffs bringing claims under Title VII must, as a first step, show a prima facie case -- or initial set of facts that, if unexplained, plausibly amount to discrimination.

The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded that Ames didn't meet that bar because -- as a straight woman -- she failed to show the necessary "background circumstances" necessary to show a plausible case of discrimination against her as a member of a majority group.
What ? People in the majority of humans, in terms of sexual orientation, have rights too ? Will the others survive this?
HobNoblin · 36-40, M
Strait is the only sexual orientation there actually is. It's what evolved for procreation. All else is defect.
DogMan · 61-69, M
@NativePortlander1970 Hob Noblin makes more sense than you do. That is why you too have been blocked.
HobNoblin · 36-40, M
@NativePortlander1970 Or maybe I been to Epstein island, either way it doesn't change a thing, no matter who is doing it, it's abnormal.
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Then need an acronym that’s less like scrotum.

 
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