Religion, LGBT Rights Again on Collision Course at High Court

Funeral home owner Thomas Rost said he would be “violating God’s commands” if he allowed his transgender employee Aimee Stephens to work as a woman, during the Michigan business’s battle over gender identity discrimination that ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

While the high court ruled in that case that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBT workers, it left open questions of whether employers like Rost can fire or refuse to hire gay or transgender individuals based on religion.

Employers with religious objections to anti-bias enforcement will likely continue to mount those defenses in the ...