The Supreme Court ruled that workers cannot be fired for being gay or transgendered in landmark civil rights decision.
to protect gay and transgender employees from discrimination in the workplace. The vote was six to three with Justice Neil Gorsuch writing the majority opinion. Joining in the majority vote were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan., the case decided was about Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prevents employment discrimination based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
The decision was the first major case on LGBTQ rights debated by the justices since the departure of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion on the prior four decisions made by the court in regard to LGBTQ rights.
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