Religious Objection to Race, Gender Training Gets 8th Cir. Look

Two Native American, Christian employees of a Minnesota psychiatric hospital will try to convince a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit challenging workplace anti-racism and gender identity trainings on religious and First Amendment grounds.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is slated to hear oral argument Thursday in a bid by Joseph Norgren and his son and co-worker Aaron Norgren to overturn a lower court ruling that they didn’t show how their objections to the mandatory trainings led to an adverse employment action against them.

The computer-based workplace training units that the ...