A prominent antigay activist has enlisted a lawyer from former Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s legal nonprofit to sue for the First Amendment right to fire and not hire bisexuals.
A prominent antigay activist and a Texas evangelical church are employing a lawyer from a legal nonprofit started by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller to argue that some federal laws protecting LGBTQ workers actually don’t apply to bisexuals. In a brief filed with the Fifth Court of Appeals, which was first reported by the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday, they contend to have found a galaxy-brain-style loophole in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The logic goes as follows: Employers cannot refuse to hire or fire gay men for being attracted to men because they’d never do that to women for being attracted to men. But what if employers fired and refused to hire both bi men and bi women equally?
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