Supreme Court upholds teacher's firing by church-run school
Jan 13, 2012 7:49 AM
From The Detroit Free Press: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled
in favor of a Redford Township, Mich., church's firing of a
teacher. The case centered on Cheryl Perich, who developed narcolepsy
and sought to keep her job, which the church said she no longer could
perform. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that it
was legal for Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School
in Redford Township to fire Perich after she complained she was being
discriminated against because of a disability. The court's ruling
upheld the legal principle that houses of worship have what's called
a ministerial exception, meaning they are exempt from some government
laws, such as anti-discrimination laws.
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the Supreme Court decision (PDF file).
