Savage Love Episode 676
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.4 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.1 | well, there's nothing you can't pass on Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.7 | 7-2. |
| 0:25.9 | If the winners of the popular vote, and in Al Gore's case, the actual winner of the |
| 0:29.8 | fucking election in 2000 had won the White House that there would be a 7-2 liberal |
| 0:35.0 | majority on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:37.7 | Instead, what we've got is a 5-4 conservative majority. |
| 0:43.2 | While again and again and again, |
| 0:45.0 | majorities of Americans have supported Democratic candidates and democratic policies, |
| 0:49.2 | again and again and again, |
| 0:50.3 | the anti-small D-democratic rat fuckery baked into our system has handed the White House |
| 0:56.5 | to the losing candidate, which is why conservatives have a five, four majority on the court. |
| 1:03.2 | Anyway, I bring up the Supreme Court on my sex and relationship advice show because right now, |
| 1:07.5 | today, this morning, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in three |
| 1:11.1 | cases that touch on LGBT civil rights. Lower courts have decided that gay and trans Americans |
| 1:16.2 | are protected from workplace discrimination thanks to existing laws that ban discrimination on |
| 1:21.4 | the basis of sex. As Mark David Stern wrote in Slate, it is impossible to discriminate against |
| 1:26.5 | LGBTQ people without taking sex into account. |
| 1:29.8 | Consider an employer who fires a man for marrying a man but does not fire a woman for marrying a man. |
| 1:35.1 | This discrimination is inherently based on sex, change the male employee's sex, and he wouldn't be fired. |
| 1:41.5 | It's similarly impossible to discriminate against a trans person for being |
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