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Allentown, PA — Today, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center joins with advocates around the United States to praise the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bostock this morning that declared workplace discrimination against LGBT people to be unconstitutional.
In the 6-3 decision for the Court, authored by Justice Gorsuch, the court stated “Today we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or Transgender, the answer is clear period. An employer who fired an individual for being homosexual or Transgender – fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, […] exactly what Title VII forbids.” Joining Gorsuch’s decision were Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. Dissenting were Justices Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh.
The following statement can be attributed to Adrian Shanker, executive director of Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center:
Today’s Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court affirms the dignity of LGBT people. Congress has introduced legislation to ban LGBT employment discrimination since 1980. Pennsylvania has also failed to address this issue year after year. Today, a bipartisan majority on the U.S. Supreme Court stated clearly that not only is it wrong, but it is in violation of federal law to discrimination against employees because they are LGBT. Today’s decision is another milestone in the journey for equal justice for LGBTQ people.
Information Provided By:
Adrian Shanker
Executive Director
Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center
