‘A tremendous victory for religious freedom’
By Bob Unruh
In what is being described as “a tremendous victory for religious freedom,” a federal court has ruled that a Christian-owned company can choose to hire employees based on the owner’s beliefs.
That means it is exempt from federal discrimination requirements banning decisions based on someone’s choice of an alternative sexual lifestyles.
A report from Liberty Counsel says it is a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that said, unanimously, in Braidwood Management v. EEOC, that the Religious Freedom Restoration of Act protects not just churches, but private entities, too.
The decision means the company is protected from having to employ “someone who does not share the same beliefs or whose conduct does not align with the company’s views,” Liberty Counsel reported.
“The RFRA prevents the federal government from enforcing otherwise neutral laws that burden a person’s free exercise of religion. In this case, the RFRA protects a Christian business from having to employ homosexual or gender-dysphoric employees who are incompatible with the company’s biblical views on sexuality and marriage,” the legal team explained.