Rep. Andy Biggs told Newsmax TV on Wednesday Justice Neil Gorsuch “totally botched” Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that expanded the definition of sex discrimination to include homosexuality and transgenderism, saying it opens churches and other religious institutions to a flood of lawsuits.
“The practical effect of this is your going to have thousands of religious institutions, millions of religious practitioners, people who go to church, and you’re going to see lawsuits against these people based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act,” Biggs said on “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “That’s what’s going to happen here, because of the way Gorsuch interpreted this very old law. And I think he totally botched it, to be honest with you.”
Biggs, 61, a second-term Republican representing Arizona’s 5th Congressional District east of Phoenix and the House Freedom Caucus chairman, was reacting to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in which Gorsuch, an appointee of President Donald Trump, joined with Chief Justice John Roberts and four noted liberal justices: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Steven Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotamayor.
Gorsuch wrote the opinion for the court that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits being discriminated against because of one’s sex, and similar actions taken against those for being homosexual or transgender are no different.
“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex," Gorsuch wrote. “Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids."
Biggs, who received his law degree from the University of Arizona, appeared to agree with Justice Samuel Alito, who blasted Gorsuch and the other five justices in his dissent, calling the opinion of the court “preposterous.”
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