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A missions body within the Southern Baptist Convention has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling against the organization regarding the firing of a former state convention leader.
In 2017, the SBC North American Missions Board was sued by Will McRaney, the former executive director of Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware. McRaney claimed that NAMB officials had, among other things, made defamatory statements against him to get him fired from the convention.
or another person’s misconduct to the police.
Unless the court and the employer call the whistleblower a minister. If the court rules a person is a minister, she completely loses her day in court, as Mary Rehfield did recently in
I think Rehfield’s case should go to court, where either she or Joliet may win, based on the facts. That is a better rule than dismissing all the ministers’ cases because someone wants to call them a minister in court.
Lay Principal Mary Rehfield
Mary Rehfield had more than 43 years in education, including 18 years as a “lay principal” in a Catholic school. She also called herself a “lay individual,” which reflects her position in the Catholic church. She “describes her job duties as primarily secular in nature. She alleges that one of the main reasons she was hired as principal was ‘bringing order to the school administration.’” She improved the students’ education experience, gave them a new science curriculum and other better
Agency updates religious discrimination for first time in over a decade
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated the section of its Compliance Manual on religious discrimination in the workplace. The updated section on religious discrimination was published in January 2021 after a short review period and a 3-2 vote along party lines by the commissioners (with Republicans in favor of the proposal, and Democrats in opposition). Published just days before President Biden took office and named one of the Democratic members as chair of the agency, it remains to be seen if the EEOC will modify this or other sections of the Compliance Manual.
Bostock v. Clayton County.
[1] There, the Court held that by barring employer discrimination against any individual “because of such individual’s . . . sex,” Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also bars employment discrimination because an individual is gay or transgender. The paper then speculates about how much
Bostock will affect how likely lower court judges will read other “sex” discrimination prohibitions in the U.S. Code in the same way, in part based on a canvass of the text of about 150 of those prohibitions. The paper also discusses the religion-based defenses that defendants may raise in response under Title VII itself, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. And the paper suggests how