Brief filed in defense of Gloucester County policy preventing transgender access to bathroom and locker rooms
G.G. v. Gloucester County (read brief here)
Brief filed in defense of Christian Funeral Home against EEOC suit for dismissing transvestite employee
EEOC v. Harris Funeral Homes (read brief here)
June 22, 2017
Last month, we filed two briefs opposing special rights for transvestites (a/k/a transgendered persons) under federal law.
G.G. v. Gloucester County
On May 15, 2017, we filed a supplemental brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit defending the policies of the Gloucester County School
Board designed to protect the natural modesty of children from assault by the federal government. The case involves an ACLU challenge on behalf of a girl who
claims to be a boy.
This was the third brief we filed in support of Gloucester County in this case. The prior litigation involved the Obama Administration's directives to
the School Board to open the boys room and boys locker and shower facilities to a girl now named Gavin Grimm. Thankfully, President Trump rescinded
those guidance letters. Therefore, the question before the Fourth Circuit at this time is no longer whether deference should be paid to the Executive
Branch, but whether federal law (Title IX of the United States Education Amendments of 1972 ) itself requires School Boards to allow students to use whatever
facilities they may choose to use based on the sex with which they may "self-identify." This brief that we filed addressed that statutory issue.
This brief was filed on behalf of Public Advocate of the United States, United States Justice Foundation, Citizens United, Citizens United Foundation,
and Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund.
EEOC v. Harris Funeral Homes
On May 24, 2017, we filed a brief in the Sixth Circuit supporting a Christian Funeral Home against a suit by the EEOC on behalf of a man employed by
that funeral home who would like to dress in women's clothing for one year as he alledgedly "transitions to being a woman."
The EEOC made the naked assertion that the claim for this employee was supported by the text of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but failed
to explain how that was so. (The provision relating to "sex" was inserted into the bill by Virginia Congressman Howard W. Smith to prohibit discrimination against
women, as a poison pill to kill the bill, but it passed anyway.) The EEOC relied solely on the Supreme Court's 1989 decision in Price Waterhouse v.
Hopkins, which was said to prohibit "sexual stereotyping." Our brief explains the weaknesses in that decision, and why firing a transvestite because of his
cross-dressing behavior is not sex discrimination. Lastly, we explained why the EEOC provision would undermine the funeral home's Christian witness.
This brief was filed on behalf of Public Advocate of the United States, U.S. Justice Foundation, and Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund.
On May 15, our firm launched a new website to promote other publications and organizations which add to our Biblical understanding of the times. This
website currently links to about 300 other publications and websites, as well as dozens of background papers and issue resources.
We are updating www.BiblicalGrid.com every Monday morning. This week, our lead story is both a video and printed version of a speech by Chaplain E. Ray
Moore of Exodus Mandate Ministries. The title is: "What Once Was Can Be Again: Christian Education and the Reformation."
If you know of websites to which we should link, please let us know.
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