Christian Nonprofit’s Sex Bias Loss to Gay Worker Overturned (1)

A Christian organization defeated a gay woman’s claims that its withdrawal of her customer service representative job offer violated Washington state employment bias law, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.

Aubry McMahon’s anticipated role at World Vision Inc., a poverty-relief agency, would’ve made her a minister, a unanimous three-judge panel said. It reversed a lower court’s summary judgment in favor of McMahon and remanded for entry of judgment for World Vision.

The evidence showed customer service representatives “perform key religious functions central to World Vision’s mission,” Judge Richard C. Tallman said. They’re responsible for communicating the organization “worldwide ministries and projects ...