THEY MOCKED OUR LEGAL BRIEF. NOW ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE OF EMPLOYEES
"Ironic that the accused sex abusers will use the same exact legal defense that Public Advocate warned about years ago in Supreme Court legal briefs and that this same Pink News attacked. So while they were alledgedly abusing their staff for years, acting like Harvey Weinstein, they were mocking and attacking the group warning about this being done to victims -- which include their employees, " says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate.
An anti-gay hate group has filed a brief with the US Supreme Court arguing that protecting LGBT+ people from discrimination would enable the next Harvey Weinstein.
The US Supreme Court is set to consider the cases of three people who were fired for being LGBT+, with justices expected to rule on whether employers acted illegally under sex-based civil rights laws.
A slew of anti-LGBT lobbyists eager to make their views known have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the case, arguing discrimination should be legal.
Hate group worried about slippery slope.
Public Advocate of the United States, which has been designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, spearheaded one of the most extreme briefs.
Their argument claims that if gay people are protected from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, then "adulterers, predators, paedophiles, and the like - could make the same argument that their sex requires that they be protected against discrimination".
It claims that the court siding with the LGBT+ employees would "arm the Harvey Weinsteins of the world with a sex discrimination claim with which to counter the #MeToo movement against sexual predators in the workplace".
The brief goes on to claim that if gay people are protected from discrimination, "the flood gates will open and soon the nation will learn that gays, lesbians and bisexuals are not the only categories of persons who violate sex-based stereotypes and can be protected by judicially crafted legal theories."
COPY OF PUBLIC ADVOCATE SUPREME COURT BRIEF WARNING OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN LEGAL DEFENSE