Saturday, November 19, 2016

Federal court: 1964 Civil Rights Act bars discrimination on basis of sexual orientation

Image result for Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964A US district court has ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, also prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

“There is no more obvious form of sex stereotyping than making a determination that a person should conform to heterosexuality,” Judge Cathy Bissoon ruled.

She added, “That someone can be subjected to a barrage of insults, humiliation, hostility and/or changes to the terms and conditions of their employment, based upon nothing more than the aggressor’s view of what it means to be a man or a woman, is exactly the evil Title VII was designed to eradicate.”