Supreme Court Says Existing Law Protects LGBTQ Workers

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting sex discrimination in the workplace protects LGBTQ employees from being fired because of their sexual orientation.

"An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the opinion.

The vote passed six to three, with conservative Chief Justice John Roberts joining Gorsuch and the court's four liberal justices in the majority.

You can read more about the Supreme Court's ruling on NPR.