NEW YORK (NY)
Commonweal Magazine
July 13, 2020
By Chris Damian
The USCCB Prioritizes Culture Wars Over Theology
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month in Bostock v. Clayton County gave advocates for LGBTQ rights a reason other than Pride to celebrate. In a 6-3 decision written by President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, the court held that “an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII.” Gay and transgender people can now sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act if they suffer adverse employment actions based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Much of the commentary after the decision followed a familiar script: religious conservatives lamented that Republican-appointed judges had yet again betrayed the cause; progressives welcomed a rare Trump-era victory; major corporations signaled their approval. Reactions in the Catholic press were similarly unsurprising, and sometimes seemed to be not only about the legal merits of the majority opinion, but also a referendum on Church teachings about sexuality and gender.
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