SCOTUS Upholds Gay Rights - Another Victory To Celebrate
The Muckrake Political Podcast
CLNS Media Network
4.6 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So this court saying for the first time ever that employers who discriminate against individuals |
| 0:08.8 | simply for their sexual orientation or for their transgender status are in fact violating the law. |
| 0:15.8 | This was a ramp that had no steps, no handrail. |
| 0:21.0 | The president had on leather shoes. |
| 0:23.0 | Of course, he's going to take his time and go down and make sure that he doesn't. |
| 0:26.6 | Nobody wants to fall down in front of cameras. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the Muck Wrecked podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | As always, I am Nick Houselman, joined by Jared Yates Sexton. |
| 0:41.4 | And we have another hopeful podcast for you guys. |
| 0:43.9 | It's the third one in the row, I believe, Jared. |
| 0:51.2 | And it's kind of hard to believe after the morass we've had to draw, pull ourselves through the last 50 episodes before this. |
| 0:58.8 | You make it sound like the people listening who haven't heard the past episode should not go back and listen to those past episodes. |
| 1:01.0 | It sounds like it's some sort of slog or something. |
| 1:05.4 | We've been living in rough times. |
| 1:07.9 | We've been living in rough times. |
| 1:12.6 | And, you know, a moment like today, and of course what Nick is talking about is a historic and long overdue ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, ruling that |
| 1:21.6 | LGBTQ Americans are protected in their employment and shouldn't be discriminated against, is not only welcome, |
| 1:31.3 | but I would argue it's just momentous and amazing good news. |
| 1:37.5 | Absolutely, but it also is stupid that we actually have to waste the Supreme Court's time |
| 1:43.6 | to make this clear to employers |
| 1:46.9 | that you can't fire them if they're gay. Like that is what's so ridiculous in 2020 that we |
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