A Catholic prep school in Massachusetts violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when it rescinded a job offer to a man in a same-sex marriage, a judge has held.
Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins granted summary judgment to the plaintiff on Dec. 16. Wilkins found that the religious exemption to the state’s anti-discrimination law does not apply to the case, because the school employs and educates people of all faiths, the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe report.
“[The] legislature has defined ‘employer’ to exclude only those religious organizations that ‘limit membership, enrollment, admission, or participation to members of that religion’,” Wilkins wrote in his order (PDF). “Fontbonne is an ‘employer’ under this section, because it does not limit membership, enrollment, admission or participation to Catholics.”
