Court rules ex-teacher in same-sex marriage may sue Pennsylvania diocese
October 02, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: A federal district court judge declined to dismiss an ex-teacher’s discrimination lawsuit against the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Aquinas Academy, a Catholic school in Greensburg, fired a Lutheran sixth-grade teacher after learning that he was in a same-sex marriage. Judge Nicholas Ranjan, appointed to the bench by President Donald Trump, ruled that “Congress clearly intended for Title VII’s religious exemptions not to apply to religiously motivated sex discrimination.”
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Oct. 02, 2026 9:17 AM ET USA
Bishop McElroy set a precedence of accepting same-sex "married" man as an openly homosexual pastoral associate at a parish in the diocese of San Diego. Then, 4 years later, Bishop McElroy was promoted to be a Cardinal, and 3 years later named the Archbishop of Washington, DC. If the Bishops don't use their God-given authority to stand united for the Faith and for religious freedom, they will have failed their vocation. "You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its saltiness..." Mat. 5:13
