Posted on 10/16/2015 8:26:35 PM PDT by massmike
Five months after the Catholic diocese of Richmond fired John Murphy from his high-level job at a Catholic assisted-living center because he was in a homosexual “marriage,” the 63-year-old Virginia man has filed a discrimination claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
And supporters of traditional marriage are watching Murphy’s complaint closely.
“It’s a groundbreaking complaint,” says Travis Weber, director of the Family Research Council’s Center for Religious Liberty. “It’s significant for several reasons.”
Among those reasons is that the legal game has changed radically since the diocese fired Murphy in early April, a week after he began his position as executive director of St. Francis Home.
In June, the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision created a constitutional right to homosexual “marriage.” And in July, the EEOC, the federal body that adjudicates federal employment discrimination laws, expanded the Civil Rights Act’s Title VII prohibited grounds for discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
That makes Murphy’s case “unique” says his lawyer Aubrey Ford. “I’m not aware of any court that has ruled on these issues since both of those happened.”
Murphy, who variously describes himself as a “lifelong” and “cafeteria Catholic,” told LifeSiteNews that in 2008 he “married” Jerry Carter, his homosexual partner of almost 30 years, but did not disclose this information to the board of the St. Francis Home during the hiring process.
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The persecution will get tighter and tighter, eliminating all the ‘external’ ministries.
They have been meticulously planning this for forty or more years and so many sheep have kept on voting for Democrats who have empowered them for all of those years. We are the sheep and they are the wolves. Time to stop turning the other cheek. They are in control now. Only 2% of the population can now control 98%. This is no longer America.
He is fighting a lost cause. He will lose this is settled law. He is considered a moral leader and must abide by the rules of the organization.
In a sane world we would say he was fired before the Godless new standards went into effect. However...
See this is why the Right compromising won't stop the left from destroying the Right.
He was fired within a week for lying.
Kaching alert!
He says he was hired to be “the face of the operation” but did not disclose his status. I think he loses there by his own words.
Can’t wait to see him try this with a Muslim organization.
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