24 Jun Religious Groups Seek Right to Fire Workers for Grindr Utilize, Gay Sex
Churches and a business that is for-profit seeking spiritual exemptions from the Supreme Court ruling against anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in employment.
Right-wing Christian groups in Texas are arguing in court that companies will be able to discriminate against employees who participate in “homosexual or transgender conduct” such as using Grindr, visiting a homosexual bar, or having same-sex relations.
The arguments came in a quick filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, by the U.S. Pastor Council, Bear Creek Bible Church, and Braidw d Management, a company run by longtime anti-LGBTQ+ activist Steven Hotze, a leader of this successful campaign to repeal Houston’s nondiscrimination ordinance.
The plaintiffs filed suit almost a year ago seeking an exemption from Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court choice banning anti-LGBTQ+ work discrimination, saying it violates their spiritual freedom. It names as defendant the Equal Employment chance Commission, a federal government agency that has released assistance with how companies should proceed with the conditions of Bostock.