Thursday, June 23, 2022

A new Supreme Court decision has ominous implications for LGBTQ discrimination, in Marietta Memorial Hospital v. DaVita - Vox

…That is why Marietta is potentially a serious blow to LGBTQ rights, because it allows differential treatment on the basis of conduct (receiving dialysis) that is a nearly perfect proxy for a status (having end-stage renal disease) that is protected by law. This could undermine the Court's holding in Lawrence and Martinez that anti-discrimination law makes no distinction between the "status" of being gay or bisexual, and the "conduct" of having sex with people of the same gender…


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