UPDATING: La Judge Rules Democratic Governor's LGBT Nondiscrimination Order Is Unconstitutional
Source: NCRM
UPDATING: Louisiana Judge Rules Democratic Governor's LGBT Nondiscrimination Order Is Unconstitutional
by David Badash
December 14, 2016 1:12 PM
Republican Attorney General Sued to Ensure LGBT People Did Not Have Protections
A Louisiana judge has just ruled that an executive order protecting LGBT workers signed by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards (photo) is unconstitutional. Judge Todd Hernandez, first elected to the 19th Judicial District Court in 2001, handed a win to the state's anti-LGBT attorney general, Jeff Landry, who sued the governor.
Governor Bel Edwards believes LGBT workers should have the right to not suffer workplace discrimination. Landry disagreed. The executive order, which applies only to state contracts and government workers, exempts religious organizations.
The attorney general has refused to implement contracts with the state that include protections for LGBT workers.
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ananda
(28,783 posts)It's unconstitutional to protect people?
Sometimes I just hate New Trumpistan.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)Instead, Landry's witnesses mostly commented on the inconvenience that could occur by protecting transgender people from discrimination. They said there would be confusion over which bathrooms transgender people would use and what pronouns would apply to them in the office. One witness even complained that there could be confusion over state employee uniforms and transgender people.
"It's really unnatural in a lot of ways," said Douglas Sunseri, a Metairie attorney who has represented a number of small businesses in disputes with employees. He was brought in as an expert on employment discrimination by the attorney general's legal team.
Sunseri said it was hard to define what Edwards meant when he prohibited discrimination against people based on their "gender identity" in the executive order. He said it was hard to define what "gender identity" -- which is typically used to refer to transgender people -- meant.
"Is it dress? Is it an attitude? Is it thought? I don't know," Sunseri told the court.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Well then FUCKING LEARN if you don't know. TALK TO TRANS PEOPLE. READ A FUCKING BOOK.
Bigoted assholes.
msongs
(67,199 posts)resistance2016
(86 posts)I'm getting REAL tired of this horse shit
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)The push will come to go back into the closets, but people like me will never do it, and will likely pay very dearly for it.