Court rules against jail guard who was fired after objecting to LGBTQ training
August 08, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: A federal district court has ruled against a former jail guard who was fired by Douglas County, Oregon, after he refused to take part in mandatory LGBTQI community training.
Alleging religious discrimination, the guard said that the training required him to “affirm and validate homosexual unions and the self-proclaimed ‘transgender,’ ‘non-binary,’ or ‘genderqueer’ identities” of prisoners and colleagues.
The court cited “longstanding, black‐letter law recognizing that [a] public employer ‘may impose restraints on the job-related speech of public employees that would be plainly unconstitutional if applied to the public at large.’”
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