A scientist has claimed to solve the disappearance of aviatrix Emilia Earhart one of the enduring mysteries of the 20th Century. Her plane vanished on July 2, 1937 while flying from Papua New Guinea to Howland Island, part of her attempt to fly around the world. Her plane was never found, but in 1941, human bones were discovered on the small island of Nikumaroro. At the time, they were thought to be the remains of a male, but an anthropology professor at the University of Tennessee, Richard Jantz, says they probably were Earhart’s. Since those bones have been lost, there’s no way to confirm his theory…we prefer think she’s on an island somewhere playing bridge with Judge Crater, Jimmy Hoffa, and D.B. Cooper.
A court in Garden City, Michigan has ruled that a funeral home was wrong in firing Aimee Stephens, a trans-gendered employee. The R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes claimed that allowing the employee, who identified as a man at the time he was hired, to wear women’s clothing would be a distraction to its largely Christian clientle (the home’s owner, Thomas Rost, is a devout Christian), and that the employee was violating the business’ dress code. The court dismissed the home’s arguments in a 49-page ruling, stating that “simply permitting Stephens to wear attire that reflects a conception of gender that is at odds with Rost’s religious beliefs is not a substantial burden under RFRA [the Religious Freedom Restoration Act]. We hold that, as a matter of law, tolerating Stephens’s understanding of her sex and gender identity is not tantamount to supporting it.”
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