Sunday, August 21, 2016
Federal court upholds firing of transgender funeral director
In a decision that favored religious freedom over transgender rights in the workplace, a federal judge ruled today that a metro Detroit funeral home did not discriminate against an employee when it fired her for transitioning from a man into a woman. That’s because transgender individuals are not a protected class under federal employment laws, the judge ruled, and the funeral home can’t be forced to make employment decisions that go against its sincerely held religious beliefs.
In this case, the funeral home owner believed that a person’s sex is a “God-given gift,” and that the government can’t force him to abandon that belief. U.S. District Judge Sean Cox agreed.......To Read More....
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