According to Judge, “religious corporations don’t discriminate against people based on gender, even when they are motivated by religion.”
A recent federal prosecutor upheld a recent case involving religious liberty and former transgender worker discrimination.
According to Higher Ed Dive, U.S. District Judge Norman Moon next week denied the evangelical Protestant school’s request to dismiss the case because it raises a “novel issue of rules” that has not yet been resolved.
In his mind, Moon argued that “religious institutions cannot discriminate on the basis of gender, even if it is motivated by religion.”
The prosecutor wrote that” This case— and the rules it implicates — points to the gentle balance between two competing and laudable objectives: eradicating discrimination in employment, on the one hand, and giving religious institutions the freedom to maintain a workforce that adheres to its philosophical principles, on the other.”
No source of law “answers the problem before us,” according to Moon, but” a selection to the contrary would have profoundly negative effects on our system of civil law and the separation between church and state.”
The judge ruled that Title VII permits companies to “discriminate on the basis of faith” but not based on sex.
A former female worker who now claims to be a woman is suing the school for terminating him in 2023. Jonathan Zinski, who is now known as” Ellenor,” is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia.
According to the lawsuit, Zinski alleges the Virginia school fired him from an data systems career after he changed his name and started using trans drugs.
Liberty is accused of bias in the case. However, the school claims that it was invoking its spiritual freedom.
The “denial of baby sexual by self-identification with a different gender” is described as a” sinful action prohibited by God,” according to its ideological speech, and all employees are required to mark it.
The University claims that there is an “exception to the’religion ‘ component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations ( including educational institutions ) that allows them to give employment preference to members of their own religion, as previously reported by The College Fix.
Legal experts claim that the Constitution and jury law permit religious organizations like Liberty to hire only those who uphold a spiritual social script.
In a recent comment on the situation, senior counsel at First Liberty Institute Senior Counsel Stephanie Taub stated,” Fortunately, the law provides a couple of very robust lines of defense for religious institutions.
The Constitution contains the first one, according to the author. And thankfully, the Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed a number of excellent legal decisions that stand up to the rights of religious institutions to employ so-called ministers, or those tasked with teaching the faith to the next generation as part of their religious institution. Additionally, federal employment discrimination rules itself provides protections for religious employers in making job decisions based on their religion.
Less: The ACLU files a lawsuit against Liberty University for terminating its transgender employee.
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