Supreme Court To Hear Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Case Oct. 8

(LifeSite News) The United States Supreme Court has selected October 8 as the date it will begin hearing oral arguments on whether longstanding anti-discrimination laws should be reinterpreted to cover homosexuality or gender confusion. The case will consolidate three separate cases into one: that of a skydiving instructor who was fired after informing a customer he was gay; a Christian funeral home that fired a male employee who insisted on dressing as a woman on the job and a county child welfare services coordinator who was fired after his employer learned he was gay. All hinge on whether Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act extends its nondiscrimination protections to the categories of sexual orientation" or gender identity." The Supreme Court has set October 8 as the day oral arguments will begin Washington Blade a homosexual paper reports. Attorney Chase Strangio of the left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) declared it would be one of the biggest days in LGBTQ legal history":