Posted on 03/10/2021 6:18:35 PM PST by marshmallow
Gordon College can’t claim a ministerial exception to shield the school from an anti-discrimination lawsuit brought by a former professor of social work, the state’s highest court has ruled.
The case may end up at the U.S. Supreme Court, since it touches on unresolved matters concerning a religious-liberty case the high federal court decided last year.
The Wenham school, which was founded by a Baptist pastor and identifies as non-denominational Christian, denied tenure in 2017 to Margaret DeWeese-Boyd, who had taught social work there since 1999. The associate professor sued the college and administrators in Essex Superior Court, claiming school officials denied the promotion because of “her protected activity opposing Gordon College’s discriminatory anti-LGBTQ+ policies and practices, her advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ+ individuals at Gordon College, and/or her gender,” according to a summary of her lower-court brief.
The college has sought to end her lawsuit by claiming that as a religious school it doesn’t have to follow state and federal anti-discrimination statutes in employment decisions because it has broad protection under the free-exercise-of-religion clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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Never let a social worker anywhere near your life
Dear God in Heaven,
Please protect Gordon college from this hateful woman.
Lord have mercy.
It is a school which teaches the Bible and this horrible woman wants to push anti-Biblical ideas.
Dear God in Heaven,
Please protect Gordon college from this hateful woman.
Lord have mercy.
It is a school which teaches the Bible and this horrible woman wants to push anti-Biblical ideas.
SCOTUS ruled,9-0,that the law under which Caetano was convicted was an unconstitutional violation of 2nd Amendment rights and vacated the conviction.
Moral of the story: Massachusetts judges don't pay much attention to rights granted by the UNITED STATES Constitution. Which doesn't surprise anyone who's familiar with the state.
“It is a school which teaches the Bible and this horrible woman wants to push anti-Biblical ideas.”
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The school failed early on when they hired her.
That’s going to be be a big sticking point.
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