This week the Department of Justice revoked a last-minute memo issued by the Trump administration that sought to permit some employers to discriminate against LGBTQ prospective employees based on their religious beliefs. Greg Friel, the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, issued a memo revoking one issued only a few days earlier under the Trump administration. The Trump DOJ memo had sought to limit the extent of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision finding that prohibitions on sex-based discrimination contained in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect LGBTQ people from employment discrimination. According to The Wall Street Journal, the 23-page Trump-era memo said that The memo tried to carve out exemptions for employers that would allow them to discriminate against LGBTQ people, without consequence, if their religious beliefs oppose homosexuality. The new memo overturned everything that the Trump administration tried to accomplish.
Justice Department revokes Trump-era memo justifying religiously-based LGBTQ discrimination
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