With all the disease that had been culled and accumulated, simmered and sautéed, hidden in plain sight, yet shadowy and insidious…with nature’s wrath, and the wretched nature of humankind…with all of that, plus the privileged and pompous self- anointed permission by people, who pretend that laws are for only the weak…an apocalypse of sorts HAS finally approached more like apprehended all of us, and we lament the fact that somehow we never saw this coming! In the midst of a Pandemic, Pathetic Politics and Politicians, Paranoid Pariah’s as False Prophets, it is still a month in which the LGBTQ demographic wishes to celebrate a PRIDE…we are Queer, and we are here, and for me, I own the word Queer, and I will always make certain you know I am Here and notice me. On Monday/June 15, 2020, with a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that employers can't fire workers for being gay or transgender. One might wonder, so why was this an issue…but the fact that it had to travel as far as the Supreme Court, proved the fact, for some insecure, bigots and homophobes IT WAS A HUGE ISSUE!
Chief Justice John Roberts assigned Gorsuch the task of writing the opinion, perhaps to underscore that it's meant to be based on a strict reading of the law — the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans job discrimination because of, among other factors, race, religion, and sex. Undoubtedly, Gorsuch said, Congress wasn't thinking about sexual orientation or gender identity when it wrote that law 56 years ago. But it's the words of the law that matter, not what Congress had in mind. "It is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that person based on sex," he wrote. If the boss fires a man for being attracted to other men, Gorsuch continued, then "the employer discriminates against him for traits or actions it tolerates in his female colleague." (Pete Williams/NBC News)
I am, what I am, a cliché perhaps a line from a musical…But now what I am, means in spite of how you want to portray your God in all HIS evilness, don’t fuck with me when it comes to employment, and your own inadequacies. Bayard Rustin, a civil rights leader said, “To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true!”/ Harvey Fierstein a writer, entertainer, and leader for civil rights said, “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself!” We have battles to fight, most originate from humankind, which never includes the kindness part of being human…BUT all battles are figments of the imagination of those who prefer to play God than pray to God!
