Wesleyan University to Face Catholic Chaplain’s Job Bias Claims

A Wesleyan University Catholic chaplain can pursue claims he was fired because of his religion, a federal judge ruled.

The suit was previously dismissed, but the chaplain sufficiently bolstered his religious discrimination allegations under federal law, the US District Court for the District of Connecticut said in partially granting a motion to amend the suit. According to those claims, a rabbi who serves as director of Wesleyan’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life remarked that the university didn’t need Catholic or Protestant chaplains and the amended complaint includes “allegations plausibly demonstrating” the rabbi influenced staffing decisions, the court said.

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