Topline Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas said Monday they want the conservative-leaning court to consider whether religious employers can legally discriminate against hiring people who don’t share their beliefs, after the court declined to hear a case where a a religious nonprofit wanted to block a bisexual applicant. The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Getty Images The court denied taking up Seattle’s Union Mission Gospel v. Woods, in which the Washington Supreme Court held that a nonprofit ministry organization couldn’t block a man from applying for an attorney position because he was in a same-sex relationship and didn’t follow the court’s religious requirements. The Washington Supreme Court ruled that an exemption to the state’s anti-discrimination law for religious groups applied only to ministers, and wouldn’t apply to the attorney job the applicant was seeking. In an opinion “respecting” the Supreme Court’s denial of the case, Alito, joined by Thomas, said they agreed with the court not taking up the case on technical grounds, as the Washington court’s decision wasn’t a final judgment on whether attorneys count as “ministers” and the court could still take up the issue in the future. But Alito and Thomas said […]
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