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Civil Rights

Jun. 18, 2020

Religious liberty and Title VII on course for collision

By characterizing a federal law that protects religious freedom as a "super statute," U.S. Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch is effectively encouraging religious groups to challenge the high court's recent opinion that the Civil Rights Act protects gay, lesbian, and transgender employees in the workplace, an employment attorney says.

By characterizing a federal law that protects religious freedom as a "super statute," U.S. Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch is effectively encouraging religious groups to challenge the high court's recent opinion that the Civil Rights Act protects gay, lesbian, and transgender employees in the workplace, an employment attorney says.

"The court indicated that, as they see it, there are definitely ways in which religious freedoms wou...

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