A Catholic aid organization was ordered on Monday to pay $ 60000 to a former gay employee after he filed a demand claiming sexual discrimination.
The former employee, called “John Doe” in the 2020 complaint, is a gay man in a same -sex marriage. He was hired as data analyst for the program for Catholic reliever (CRS) program based in Baltimore in June 2016.
DO complaint states that she was tolerated from her hiring that her husband would be covered by her employee health insurance plan. However, in November 2016, CRS reported that same -sex spouses are not eligible for coverage. They said that their spouse had added the leg by error and that its health insurance coverage would be terminated at the end of the months.
Do negotiated with superiors until October 2017, when his spouse was removed from the plan. Do alleges that he was threatened with the termination to press the problem.
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A federal judge ordered the Catholic relief services to pay $ 60,000 in a federal lawsuit against discrimination filed by a former employee. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
The DOE complaint argued that CRS had discriminated against him for sex, including sexual orientation and reprisals under Title VII or the Civil Rights Law of 1964, the Law of Judly Employment Practices of Maryland (Mfepa), Maryland by the Law of Law of Law of Law Act Law Law Law Law Act. Payment Law.
Monday’s ruling addressed Dis discrimination claims.
CRS argued that, as a religious organization, it falls under the exemption of religious entities included in the State Anti -Discrimination Law.
In his ruling, the United States District Judge, Julie Rubin, cited the conclusions of Maryland’s Supreme Court that religious organizations are exempt from sexual orientation discrimination that Mfepa’s claims are presented “central organization.
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The lawyers of a former employee or Catholic aid services say that demand alleges that sex and discrimination based on sexual orientation could establish a precedent in other cases that involve the religious exemption of acts of Maryland’s fair employment practices. (Istock)
Do worked in five full -time posts lasting his mandate in CRS, none of which was of a “explicitly religious” nature, says the ruling.
Judge Rubin determined that Doe “no, in any of his positions, directly more a central CRS mission” and ruled in his favor that CRS violated his rights under MFEPA and must do it $ 60,000.
The legal victory is the first in Maryland that applies the test of the Supreme Court of the State under the religious exemption of the Employment Practices Law of the Maryland Fair, do say the lawyers of DO.
“I am very happy with Judge Rubin’s ruling and I feel honored to be part of such an preceding case that has helped clarify, for employers and employees equally, the legal protections that Maryland’s law provides, especially for LGBTQ+workers,” DIY.
“I really hope that CRS sees this decision as an opportunity to promote the human dignity of employees in the same sex mariaceous by providing them with the same opportunities and benefits granted to their straight counterparts.”
He received another legal victory against the organization in 2022, after the United States District Judge, Catherine C. Blake, failed in favor of Mr. Doe under Title VII of the Civil Rights Law, and the Law on Equality of Payment, Baltimore Sun reported.
Catholic Relief Services did not respond to a request for comments from Fox News Digital.
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CRS is a non -governmental organization (NGOs) that serves as the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. The group helps “impoverished and disadvantaged people abroad, who work in the spirit of Catholic social education to promote the sacred of human life and the dignity of the human person,” says their website.
According to a report in the National Catholic reporter, CRS has been forced to close programs and fire the staff this year due to the dismantling of President Donald Trump of the United States International Development Agency (USAID).
CRS receives more USAID support than any other NGO, said Associated Press, and USAID financed half the CRSS budget of $ 1.2 billion in 2023.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said on March 11 that the State Department had completed a six -week review and would cancel more than 80% of USAID programs. That translates into an elimination of approximately 5,200 or USAIDS 6,200 programs.
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CRS issued a statement in response, urmps to reconsider, saying that these cuts have threatened “millions of lives” abroad.
Diana Stancy of Fox News contributed to this report.