PGC – Next to California, Washington State might be the most unamerican of all our 50 states, having fully embraced CCP values over Bill of Rights Values. The Washington Supreme Court has recently ruled that religious organizations must have members and employees that live lifestyles the religion does not approve of. The Ministry is the Seattle Union Gospel Mission and it is seeking relief from SCOTUS. It remains to be seen how “American” SCOTUS is at this point, but either way, at least our American remnant will know what is real versus what is hoped after the ruling, or the decision to not invervene, occurs.
From www1.cbn.com
2021-08-17 20:06:55
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Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission has filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide its case after the Washington Supreme Court ruled in favor of a bisexual lawyer who sued the mission over its faith-based hiring policy.
Attorney Matt Woods sued Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission in 2017 when the nonprofit refused to hire him to its free legal aid clinic after he disclosed he was in a same-sex relationship, the Seattle Times reported.
The mission, one of the largest homeless services nonprofits in the Seattle area, argued it was exempt from the state’s anti-discrimination law as a religious employer. A King County Superior Court judge agreed, dismissing Woods’ lawsuit.
However, the Washington state Supreme Court overturned the judge’s decision in March, kicking Woods’ case back to the lower court and questioning whether the exemption applied to a staff attorney at a legal aid clinic within a religious organization.
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