Court: Anti-LGBTQ Airline Workers Can Sue Over Firing
Reuters reports: A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit claiming Alaska Airlines engaged in religious discrimination by firing two flight attendants who criticized the company’s support for expanding legal protections for LGBTQ people. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Wednesday that there was enough proof … The post Court: Anti-LGBTQ Airline Workers Can Sue Over Firing appeared first on Joe.My.God..
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Reuters reports:
A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit claiming Alaska Airlines engaged in religious discrimination by firing two flight attendants who criticized the company’s support for expanding legal protections for LGBTQ people. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Wednesday that there was enough proof that the airline was motivated by the workers’ Christian beliefs when it fired them to let a jury decide whether it broke the law.
The flight attendants in 2021 made separate posts on Alaska Airlines’ employee intranet critical of the company’s backing of the Equality Act, a bill in Congress to prohibit discrimination against gay and transgender people in employment, housing, public accommodations and other areas. The plaintiffs are represented by the First Liberty Institute, which says it is the largest legal organization in the country dedicated exclusively to defending religious liberty.
Read the full article. First Liberty, an anti-LGBTQ hate group, appeared here earlier this week when they won a $640,000 judgement for a Texas judge who refused to officiate same-sex marriages.
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— Reuters (@reuters.com) June 25, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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