Employment Discrimination

A provision in Washington’s Law Against Discrimination that exempts religious nonprofits from the definition of “employer” does not violate the state’s constitution, a federal court ruled, but it may be unconstitutional as applied to a lawyer who was denied a staff attorney position at a Christian organization that helps the homeless because he disclosed that he was in a same-sex relationship.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A provision in Washington’s Law Against Discrimination that exempts religious nonprofits from the definition of “employer” does not violate the state’s constitution, a federal court ruled, but it may be unconstitutional as applied to a lawyer who was denied a staff attorney position at a Christian organization that helps the homeless because he disclosed that he was in a same-sex relationship.

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