COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s attorney general is joining the U.S. Department of Justice in arguing before
the U.S. Supreme Court that federal civil rights laws provide no protection against workplace
discrimination for LGBTQ employees
The Columbus Dispatch reports Attorney General Dave Yost said Friday he has joined a friend-of-the-court
brief filed by other states arguing the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination based on gender
doesn’t apply to those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
Yost says it’s up to Congress and not the judiciary to write laws expanding such protections.
The Supreme Court in April decided to hear cases involving people who claim they were fired because of
sexual orientation and one that involves a funeral home employee fired after disclosing she was
transitioning from male to female.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com