Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Is it time for Christians to just give up?

Should we just surrender already?

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I want to talk about an article by Father Thomas Reese.

He is a Jesuit priest.

He contributes to the National Catholic Reporter.

He recently wrote an article called Religious Conservatives Have Loss, the LGBTQ Rights

Battle.

It's time to surrender.

And what he's referring to is the Bostock versus Clayton County case handed down by

the Supreme Court recently.

That we talked about here on the podcast that says you cannot discriminate against someone

on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender identity.

These are now considered protected classes based on Title VII's ruling from the Civil Rights

Act that says you can't discriminate on the basis of sex.

Which of course when it was written was just saying you can't disenfranchise men as a

whole or women as a whole if either is capable of doing the same job.

But now it says look, if I have a man and a woman who work for me and I say the men wear

male uniforms, the women wear female uniforms are sex-specific uniforms.

But the man says, well, I identify as a woman so I'm going to wear the female uniform.

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