THE COASTAL PACKET: LePage joins 15 other GOP states to make it legal to fire gay and transgender workers

Tuesday, August 28

LePage joins 15 other GOP states to make it legal to fire gay and transgender workers

Press Herald -  Maine Gov. Paul LePage has joined 15 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that companies can fire workers based on their sexual orientation and gender identity without violating federal workplace discrimination law.

[The suit] argued that Congress did not intend for the ban on sex discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to cover bias against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender employees. That law, they claim, was intended to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex, not gender identity.

Laws in 20 states, including Maine, ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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