Catholic Relief Services Worker Wins Anti-Gay Bias Trial (1)

Catholic Relief Services must pay $60,000 to a gay data analyst whose spousal whose health insurance was terminated because of anti-LGBTQ+ bias among other civil rights violations, a federal judge ruled.

CRS wasn’t shielded from the John Doe plaintiff’s sexual orientation discrimination claim by the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act’s religious entity exemption, the US District Court for the District of Maryland said Monday following a bench trial. None of the five different full-time jobs Doe held during his time with the organization furthered its religious or secular mission, the court said, citing an answer to a question it certified ...