Bob seeks reasonable accommodation for a religious practice…

Bob seeks reasonable accommodation for a religious practice unique to the Heavenly Masters religion. Bob’s employer has never heard of such a religion. In order to determine whether Bob’s demand for accommodation is truly based on religion, his employer must determine whether Bob’s: 

Lucy works for a religious bookstore. She had an abortion wh…

Lucy works for a religious bookstore. She had an abortion when she was 16. Mary, a co-worker, discovers this fact from a chance meeting with one of Lucy’s former high school classmates. Mary reveals this to her co-workers, who find the notion that Lucy had extramarital sex and an abortion to be deeply offensive. Thereafter, Lucy is ostracized at work. Lucy does not have a viable cause for action against Mary for public disclosure of private facts because Mary had no financial incentive to disclose Lucy’s past.

The Gay Individual Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) prohibits em…

The Gay Individual Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from both requesting information about an employee’s or applicant’s sexual orientation and considering someone’s sexual orientation in taking any employment action, such as hiring, firing, or promoting.

If a church other place of worship has nonsectarian activiti…

If a church other place of worship has nonsectarian activities such as a bookstore, it may enjoy the same broad type of freedom to discriminate on the basis of religion since these activities may have religion or propagation of the religion as an integral part of their purpose.