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5. EEOC reaches settlement with Christian Employers Alliance
In a statement published Tuesday, the nonprofit legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota had finalized a partial settlement between the Christian Employers Alliance (CEA) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The settlement comes more than a year and a half after ADF sued on behalf of the CEA over the Biden administration’s legal interpretation of “sex” discrimination to include “gender identity” and “transgender status.”
The Biden administration interpretted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination based on sex, so it also covers sexual orientation and gender identity. It therefore threatened penalties to employers that don't respect the employees' preferred pronouns based on gender identity. This meant they must allow males to access female single-sex restrooms, locker rooms, and lactation rooms.”
Under the partial settlement, the EEOC agreed not to prosecute any current or future CEA member for declining to use the preferred pronouns of trans-identified employees or to let them use sex-segregated spaces that align with their stated gender identity rather than their biological sex.
“All employers, including those in the Christian Employers Alliance, have the constitutionally protected freedom to conduct their business in a manner consistent with their deeply held religious beliefs,” said Matt Bowman, ADF senior counsel and director of regulatory practice. “The employers we represent believe that God purposefully created humans as either male or female. It would violate their religious beliefs and free speech, and threaten workplace safety and privacy, to force them to accept and promote gender ideology.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
