Sunday, April 9, 2017

Seventh Circuit Rewrites Civil Rights Act, Includes Sexual Orientation Discrimination

Seventh Circuit Rewrites Civil Rights Act, Includes Sexual Orientation Discrimination

April 09, 2017 Includes Sexual Orientation Discrimination , Seventh Circuit Rewrites Civil Rights Act 0 Comments


By National Review, April 05, 2017

At what point do we declare that the judiciary is facing a credibility crisis? When do we finally decide that laws passed by Congress have no meaning and that judges are able to rewrite them at will, often using the most laughably specious reasoning? Yesterday, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unilaterally revised that the Civil Rights Act’s ban on employment discrimination on the basis of “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin” so that it now includes a ban on sexual-orientation discrimination as well. Never mind the actual words on the page. Never mind the common meaning of the words then or now. All that matters is the right result — the triumph of the social-justice “super clause” that is hidden in every law, regulation, or constitutional provision.
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