So much for POTUS Donnie being a friend to the LGBTQ community or as he stated on Meet the Press back in August 2015 “..he didn’t think sexual orientation “should be a reason” for letting workers go.” – PB/TK
Trump Administration: No Civil Rights Protection for Gays and Lesbians – By Pete Williams / July 27 2017
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department told an appeals court this week that federal civil rights law does not ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
It’s another big setback for the LGBT community, a group that candidate Donald Trump pledged to support when he held up a rainbow flag at 2016 rally in Colorado.
The government’s court filing comes in a discrimination lawsuit against a New York skydiving company. One of its instructors, Donald Zarda, said he was fired for being gay.
He claimed the firing violated the Civil Rights Act, which, among other things, bans discrimination “because of sex.” The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agreed. “Discrimination because of sexual orientation cannot rationally be distinguished from discrimination because of sex,” the EEOC said.
Continue to nbcnews.com article: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-no-civil-rights-protection-gays-lesbians-n787261
