The Supreme Court seemed receptive to a woman's argument Wednesday she was discriminated against at work because she is heterosexual.
The headline supposes a view apparently not the Court's.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was sympathetic to an Ohio woman who alleges that she was the victim of reverse discrimination. Marlean Ames contends that she lost out on a promotion that she wanted, and then was demoted, simply because she is straight. With Ames and her employer in what Justice Neil Gorsuch described as "radical agreement" that federal employment laws impose the same requirements on all plaintiffs, a solid majority (if not all) of the justices appeared ready to overturn a ruling by a federal appeals court that required Ames to meet a higher bar for her case to go forward than if she had been a member of a minority group. (emphasis mine)www.scotusblog.com
In his 1965 commencement address at Howard University, President Lyndon Johnson said,
"You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.www.presidency.ucsb.edu
Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates."
That's exactly right.
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