This is a big fucking deal:

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that existing civil rights law bars sexual orientation-based employment discrimination—a groundbreaking decision to advance legal protections for gay, lesbian, and bisexual workers.... The independent commission addressed the question of whether the ban on sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars anti-LGB discrimination in a complaint brought by a Florida-based air traffic control specialist against Transportation Sec. Anthony Foxx. The ruling—approved by a 3-2 vote of the five-person commission—applies to federal employees’ claims directly, but it also applies to the entire EEOC, which includes its offices across the nation that take and investigate claims of discrimination in private employment.

This will probably wind up before the Supreme Court. In the meantime...

Jeb! Bush said yesterday that antigay discrimination in the workplace—like antigay discrimination in public accommodation and in marriage—should be a states' rights issue. Should employers have the right to fire people for being gay in, say, Alabama? That should be up to Alabama, says Jeb!

Jeb! adds that he personally doesn't believe in antigay discrimination—heavens no—it's just that he can't bring himself to "back federal legislation to remedy the problem." But since Jeb! hasn't called for the repeal of existing federal legislation that protects people from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, and genetic information, either Jeb! believes anti-LGBT bigots should have a special right to discriminate against LGBT people or Jeb! is huge fucking hypocrite.

Someone covering his campaign should ask him which it is. Because if Jeb! is going to be consistent—if his own position on discrimination isn't discriminatory—then discriminating against, say, people of faith or people with disabilities should be states' rights issue too.