Professor Fired for Protesting Anti-LGBT Polices Ignored by SCOTUS

Justices eye expansion of religious exemption to anti-bias law From www.reuters.com 2022-02-28 18:04:00 Excerpt: (Reuters) - Members of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing on Monday signaled an interest in expanding an exemption for religious employers from anti-discrimination laws, but turned away a case raising the issue involving a social work professor at...

Parker Davis March 2, 2022 1 minute read

Justices eye expansion of religious exemption to anti-bias law

From www.reuters.com
2022-02-28 18:04:00

Excerpt:

(Reuters) – Members of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative wing on Monday signaled an interest in expanding an exemption for religious employers from anti-discrimination laws, but turned away a case raising the issue involving a social work professor at a Christian college in Massachusetts.

The court declined to review a decision from Massachusetts’s state supreme court that said the professor, Margaret DeWeese-Boyd, could sue Gordon College for allegedly denying her a promotion because she criticized the school’s anti-LGBT policies.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that DeWeese-Boyd did not teach religion, lead students in prayer or deliver sermons, distinguishing her from other workers who courts have found to qualify for the so-called “ministerial exception” from anti-discrimination laws.