Washington State Denies Religious Freedom to Gospel Mission

The Union Gospel Mission in Seattle is a religious-based organization by any reasonable definition. They require all paid staff to affirm their statement of faith, and their employee handbook’s standards of conduct were quite clearly biblically-based. Enter Matthew Woods.

Matthew Woods, a former summer intern and volunteer for the Mission, saw a job posting for a staff attorney position in the Mission’s legal aid clinic. He disclosed to the legal aid clinic’s staff that he identified as bisexual and was in a same-sex relationship, and he asked whether that would pose an obstacle to employment with the Mission. ... The clinic’s director quoted the employee handbook and explained that Woods was not “able to apply,” but the director wished him well and later sent Woods a secular legal aid clinic’s job posting. ...

Do you truly have Freedom of Religion when those who have sworn or affirmed to protect it fail to do so?

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