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Courthouse News reports:
An Iowa man fired for posting a comment on his employer’s intranet site condemning the rainbow pride flag as an “abomination to God” was not illegally fired based on his religion, a federal appeals court said in a ruling Wednesday. Daniel Snyder was fired from Arconic Corp., an aluminum company with tens of thousands of employees worldwide, after his comment on the company’s internal site opposing the Arconic’s use of the rainbow flag to symbolize support for LGBTQ+ rights.
Based on his religion, he says in his lawsuit against the company, he sees the rainbow as a symbol of God’s covenant with man and the company’s use of it sacrilegious. A three-judge panel of the St. Louis-based Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s summary judgment ruling in Arconic’s favor. The circuit judges agreed with Arconic that Snyder was fired not because of his faith, but because he violated the company’s anti-harassment policy.
Snyder was represented by the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Thomas More Society. They write:
Snyder, a devout Christian, was summarily fired by Arconic in June 2021 for making a single religious comment at work, objecting to his employer’s use of the rainbow—a traditional Christian symbol—to promote “Pride Month.” Arconic claims Snyder’s comment violated its “Diversity Policy.”
“The Biden Administration is seeking to enshrine in federal law that big companies’ ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) policies trump the religious liberty rights of individual American workers,” stated Peter Breen, Thomas More Society Executive Vice President & Head of Litigation.
“Massive companies like Arconic are using their DEI policies to threaten people of faith merely because they express their sincere religious beliefs—here, the Biden Administration has come into court to defend religious discrimination committed by a large powerful company against a single Christian union worker.”
Snyder claims that company officials “publicly humiliated” him by “laughing out loud” over his claim that he thought his anti-LGBTQ comment was anonymous.
An Iowa man fired for posting a comment on his employer’s intranet site condemning the rainbow pride flag as an “abomination to God” was not illegally fired based on his religion, the Eighth Circuit ruled Wednesday. @roxalaird16 https://t.co/il3obOetLO
— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) August 14, 2024