Supreme Court’s Transgender Ruling Leaves Christian Business Paying $250,000 Settlement
A Garden City, Michigan funeral home has settled a six-year-old lawsuit filed by a former employee after the funeral home refused to allow a biological male employee who was transitioning to female to dress as a woman while at work.
The $250,000 settlement comes after the US Supreme Court ruled last June that discrimination against transgender workers is a form of unlawful sex bias.
RG & GR Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. represented by the religious rights law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, and lawyers for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the estate of Aimee Stephens, filed a joint consent decree in Detroit federal court on Monday bringing the 2014 lawsuit to a close, according to Reuters....
