Title VII of the Civil Rights Act specifically prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, but not sexual orientation. A teacher from Georgia is working to change that.
According to National Public Radio, Flint Dollar says he was fired from his teaching job at a Catholic school after announcing over social media his plans to marry his boyfriend. NPR’s Adam Ragusea reports that because the federal and state laws didn’t expressly prohibit this form of discrimination, Dollar had few weapons to fight with. But he’s challenging the decision based on the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on sex.
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