This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, June 16th. I'm Rachel

De Judas. And I'm Kate Trinco. Today we talked to Kim Holmes, author of the Closing of the Liberal Mind,

an executive vice president at the Heritage Foundation. We'll discuss the resignation of the

New York Times opinion editor after he ran an op-ed by Senator

Tom Cotton and the outraged reaction to JK Rawlings essay on gender identity.

But we'll also look into the intellectual roots of the current speech and

thought policing and why the left has become so closed-minded.

Don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a

five-star rating on Apple podcast and encourage others to subscribe. Now, on to our top news. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court decided 6.3 that laws banning discrimination on the basis of sex also banned discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.

The majority's opinion was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Justice Samuel Alito, one of the dissenting justices, wrote, if every single American

had been surveyed in 1964, the year the Civil Rights Act was passed,

it would have been hard to find any who thought that discrimination because of sex meant discrimination

because of sexual orientation, not to mention gender identity,

a concept that was essentially unknown at the time.

Justice Breck Kavanaugh also dissented and wrote,

millions of gay and lesbian Americans

have worked hard for many decades

to achieve equal treatment in fact and in law.

They have exhibited extraordinary vision,

tenacity, and grit.

Battling often steep odds in the legislative and judicial arenas, not to mention in their daily lives.

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