The U.S. Supreme Court had a public legal debate that could have big effects on America’s ongoing culture wars.
In the end, the justices seemed to agree on almost everything—what Justice Neil Gorsuch called “radical agreement”—about the case of a straight white woman who said her employer discriminated against her because of her sexual orientation.
Ames, the plaintiff, had asked the justices to overturn a lower court decision that threw out her discrimination lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Youth Services, where she had worked for more than 15 years.
