2026-01-08

The muddled reasoning of Bostock

Here are two questions:
Are you a man or a woman?
Are you heterosexual or homosexual?

Are these one and the same question?
Of course not.
To demonstrate that, we have four separate categories:
Male heterosexuals, female heterosexuals, male homosexuals, and female homosexuals.
There are numerous people in each category, 
showing that the two properties, sex and sexual orientation, are independent of each other.
In fact, there is little correlation between the two properties.

What this proves is that sex is different from sexual orientation.
(Something that should have been obvious.)

So now let us be clear:
in its ruling on the Bostock case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County
the Supreme Court couldn't make that distinction.
The court sadly fell for the sophistical arguments of the left.

The Bostock case was clearly wrongly decided, and the court's decision should be overturned.

Further comment:
Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion 

"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."

That sentence makes a distinction between "traits or actions" and sex.

True, sex is involved in the definitions of homosexuality and heterosexuality.
But just because something IS INVOLVED IN a definition that doesn't mean it IS the definition.

The question is:
How many Supreme Court justices are capable of making that distinction?