Presidential candidate Joe Biden praised Monday’s ruling on workplace rights. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee in the November U.S.
presidential election, called Monday’s Supreme Court ruling confirming LGBTQ people are protected from employment discrimination under federal law, “a momentous step forward for our country.” Biden was referring to the high court’s historic 6-3 ruling that the U.S.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes gay, bisexual, and transgender people in its prohibition against employment discrimination based on someone’s gender or sex. “Before today, in more than half of states, LGBTQ+ people could get married one day and be fired from their job
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