Gay Sales Executive Appeals Dismissal of Federal Sex Bias Claim

A gay sales and marketing executive has asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court’s rejection of his claim that a nursing care provider in St. Louis improperly pulled his job offer after he inadvertently disclosed his same-sex marriage.

With his filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Mark Horton becomes the latest worker to ask a federal appeals court to re-examine previous case law holding that federal anti-discrimination law doesn’t prohibit sexual orientation bias.

Just last week, the New York-based Second Circuit discarded the court’s decades-old precedent and ruled that the sex discrimination provisions of Title VII ...