Atlanta court says gays, lesbians not a protected class

[Lord_Impaler]

At this point protected classes seem superfluous and unnecessarily particular to the spirit of non-discriminatory employment laws.

Discrimination on the basis of anything other than competency should be illegal.

 

[panamaican]

What's there to "read into"? They blatantly portray Trump as a teenage girl with a crush in that cartoon. The emasculation related to the homosexuality is blatant as hell.

They're both men. One of them has chosen to act like the other's subservient bitch. I don't think that reflects negatively on homosexuality. Is there another human dynamic where one party takes a subservient pleasing position relative to the other that is referenced as often as the sexual dynamic?

We make the same type of joke with heterosexual men involving women - ie "She's got his balls in a jar." We emasculate men all of the time without the homosexual element. Here homosexuality only matter because both people are men.

 

[franklinstower]

I’d prefer if one day they didn’t need protection

We’re still very shortly removed from right to marry from them, and sadly many Christians are not going the route of hating the sin and loving the sinner and are instead condemning everything about a gay person simply because it’s a particular sin they don’t struggle with and can therefore falsely feel better about how they’re living (still in sin)

I think they need to remain a protected class. Especially in GA. Without, an employer can legally refuse to even interview a candidate they know is gay for the reason being that they’re gay

This is a great post and not enough Christians seem willing to own that most of this kickback by the LGBTQ community would have never happened if Christian leadership had done their job and truly promoted love and tolerance of gay people instead of allowing bigotry and an exaggerated view of the sinfulness of homosexuality to exist.

 

[Madmick]

Ten years ago this wouldn't have even been a question to me. They needed protection.

Now, I see that even the majority are not "protected"; nay, in fact, they are being targeted by one of our major two political parties specifically for belonging to the majority, and being the dominant class. Perhaps liberals need this to slap them across the face and wake them up.

Because conservatives are firing back, now. So you wanna play this BDS game, they say? Guess what? We control the very seat of power gained from BDS. We control the jobs, wealth, and resources. What happens when we stop investing in your salary? In your mortgage loan? What happens when we decide your political opinions or culture is intolerable, and start "firing" you simply because you're not with our program.

Liberals really need to stop and take a minute. See this? This is where all of this postmodernist, socialist, identity politics nonsense leads. This is the road ahead.

Does it look very American to you?

 

[woodguyatl]

I see your point. But I think people would just lie about the reason for firing/ not interviewing anyway. I'm not sure any of this will have much affect on anything.

That same argument was made during the debate over laws protecting minorities. “Folks will just say they can’t find any good black candidates.” Indeed that does happen, but the law does influence behavior broadly and can protect people in egregious situations.

 

[BudKing8806]

That same argument was made during the debate over laws protecting minorities. “Folks will just say they can’t find any good black candidates.” Indeed that does happen, but the law does influence behavior broadly and can protect people in egregious situations.

I can't say I disagree that it has had some effect. But, will affirmative action also start saying companies should hire x amount of homosexuals? I have no issue with law protecting people from discrimination for any reason. It's when they start trying to mandate hiring certain groups of individuals that I have a problem.

 

[woodguyatl]

I can't say I disagree that it has had some effect. But, will affirmative action also start saying companies should hire x amount of homosexuals? I have no issue with law protecting people from discrimination for any reason. It's when they start trying to mandate hiring certain groups of individuals that I have a problem.

Unlikely because it is illegal to ask about sexual orientation when hiring. More broadely though, affirmative action only applies to private companies if they sell more than $50,000 of goods/services to the federal government and have more than 50 employees.