A Legal Case That May Challenge the Falsehood That Gay Rights Are Civil Rights

A discrimination case, currently before a Chicago federal appeals court, is being watched closely.  Attorneys for lesbian teacher Kimberly Hively allege she was denied a full-time position and later fired at Ivy Tech Community College (located in Indiana) due to her sexuality – a claim the school denies.  But it’s her attorneys’ claim of a Civil Rights Act violation that is raising eyebrows … since the landmark 1964 law includes sex, but not sexual orientation.

Micah Clark, of the American Family Association (AFA) of Indiana says, “It’s a hijacking of the Civil Rights movement to equate a sexual choice or behavior with an inborn genetic trait like skin color.”  [BTW: This was the same argument used in 2010 when congress repealed ‘Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell’ … permitting homosexuals in the U.S. Armed Forces to be “openly gay.”  I made the argument in my U.S. Army War College (USAWC) thesis that homosexuality is not an innate (God-given) characteristic equal to the rights declared in our Declaration of Independence … as originating from our “Creator.”]

The case was heard November 30th in front of the 7th Circuit after it was first dismissed in 2015, when the court ruled that Hively failed to make her claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act reports The Chicago Tribune.  An appeals court upheld that ruling in July, but agreed in October to vacate that ruling and rehear the case.  The Tribune story said Hively was represented by an attorney for Lambda Legal – a law organization that champions homosexual rights.  The Lambda attorney asked the judges to “interpret the law in a broader sense than how it was written half a century ago,” the story recounted.

The involvement of Lambda suggests the importance of the discrimination case to homosexual activists, and a cursory online search shows Hively’s case is being watched by a sympathetic audience.

“7th Circuit can make civil rights history for gay and lesbian employees,” declares the story headline written by a Reuters legal columnist.

“This woman’s court case could secure LGBT rights in the workplace,” predicts a headline at New York Magazine.

AFA Clark warns that a legal battle is brewing in the 7th Circuit that could force a church-operated Christian school, for example, to hire open homosexuals per a new interpretation of the Civil Rights Act.  And that’s not just a far-fetched prediction, either.  Christian colleges in California faced a similar situation this year, and churches in Massachusetts are fighting back in that liberal state.  “When you elevate a sexual behavior with moral connotations such as homosexuality,” Clark warns, “you tend to take away rights of free speech and religious liberty.”

Again, I stated back in 2010 in my USAWC thesis that the homosexual agenda was not merely about serving openly in the military, but well beyond – to same-sex ‘marriage’ and ‘employment’ rights, etc. – but ultimately the silencing of the truth of God’s Word.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel