SAVANNAH, Mo. - Three years after she was fired for refusing to work on Sundays, Connie Rehm has won back her job on the staff of this small town‘s public library, and her employers have received a costly education in employment rights law.
No less a legal team than the same Florida attorneys who represented the parents of Terri Schiavo — the brain-damaged woman at the center of last year‘s right-to-die case — took up Rehm‘s cause, suing Rolling Hills Consolidated Library on a claim of religious discrimination.
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The library‘s position in settlement negotiations was "to deal with it as a financial matter," essentially paying to make Rehm and her claim go away, he said.
"What price is my religious freedom? What is it worth?" Rehm said. "It‘s not a matter of displaying the Ten Commandments. It‘s being able to live the Ten Commandments, and that‘s what my employer was asking me not to do."
Woman wins religious discrimination case
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