Christian Group Gets Temporary Relief From State LGBTQ+ Bias Law

The Washington attorney general’s office can’t enforce, for now, a state law prohibiting LGBTQ+ discrimination in hiring against a Christian ministry that says it only employs coreligionists who share its beliefs on marriage and sexual morality.

Union Gospel Mission of Yakima showed it’s likely to prevail on its claim that enforcing Woods v. Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission‘s interpretation of the sexual orientation and gender identity provisions of Washington’s Law Against Discrimination against it would violate the First Amendment, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Washington said. The Washington Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in Woods held that ...