Federal Judge Rules Religious Businesses Exempt from LGBTQ Bias Claims

Kathryn Post - RNS : Nov 4, 2021
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"The Supreme Court didn't decide the issue of the extent to which businesses that are owned by folks with strong religious beliefs might be exempt from that general rule. This opinion from Judge O'Connor is the first ruling on that issue." -Scott McElhaney, an attorney in the Dallas office of Jackson Walker LLP

(Fort Worth, TX) — [ChristianHeadlines.com] For-profit businesses with sincerely held religious beliefs are exempt from LGBTQ discrimination liability under a decision this week by a federal judge in Texas. (Image: Unsplash-Tingey Injury Law Firm)

The ruling Sunday (Oct. 31) came in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2020 landmark ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, which held that LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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