U.S. Supreme Court justices found what Justice Neil Gorsuch called “radical agreement” in a case involving a straight white woman who claimed she was denied promotion in favor of less-qualified gay candidates.
The justices heard arguments from plaintiff Marlean Ames, who alleges that her homosexual supervisor at the time denied her a promotion and later demoted her in favor of far less qualified gay candidates at the Ohio Department of Youth Services, per ABC News.
At issue was the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissing Ames’s case out of hand, claiming that a straight, white plaintiff such as Ames does not meet the “background circumstances” required for a discrimination case.
Ames argued that the qualification of “background circumstances” is an unfair burden placed on her simply for being straight and should not affect the enforcement of Title XII.
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