Which answer choice provides an accurate and objective summary of the article?
(A) The Supreme Court's recent ruling on employment discrimination against LGBT workers extends the
Civil Rights Act of 1964's protections against sex discrimination to include discrimination based on
sexual orientation and gender identity as well.
(B) In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that legal protections against workplace discrimination based
on sex should also be applied to sexual orientation and gender identity, settling inconsistencies between
the last two presidential administrations and promising future legal conflicts over the extent of LGBT
rights under current law.
(C)
The Supreme Court's June 15 decision was the result of three separate but related appeals heard by
lower federal courts, in which workers were fired from their jobs after disclosing either their sexual
orientation or gender identity. The Court's decision upheld two of those appeals and overturned the
decision in the third, extending employment protections to the 11.3 million LGBT people in the United
States.
(D)
Three justices dissented in the Supreme Court's June 15 decision, arguing that there is a legitimate
legal distinction between discrimination based on sex, which is prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of
1964, and discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.