Christian Teacher Fails to Show Bias in Student Pronoun Rule (1)

An Indiana school district’s requirement that a Christian teacher comply with its policy of honoring the preferred names and pronouns of transgender students didn’t violate his religious rights, a divided Seventh Circuit ruled Friday.

It would have posed an undue hardship for Brownsburg Community School Corp. to allow John Kluge to be excused from the policy, the court said. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act doesn’t obligate employers to accommodate employee religious beliefs when they create an undue hardship for the employer’s business, the court said.

The undisputed evidence showed that the religious accommodation Kluge sought “harmed students ...