This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Sunday, it was perfectly legal in a majority of the United States to fire someone for being gay, bisexual or transgender.
On Monday, it wasn’t. In what my colleague Adam Liptak called “a long-sought and unexpected victory” for L.G.B.T.Q. equality, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-to-3 decision that “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.”.