Michigan Professor Fired for Officiating Gay Wedding Loses Claim

A divided Michigan Court of Appeals tossed a civil-rights claim by a former professor at a Christian university who said he was fired after officiating a same-sex marriage.

Former Calvin University Professor Joseph Kuilema’s claim under Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act that he was fired for officiating the ceremony between a former student and an ex-university employee in 2021 fails because the law doesn’t explicitly bar discrimination based on the “association” with others based on their sex, the court said Friday in an unsigned opinion.

The decision to fire him “would not have been different if Kuilema were a ...