{"id":2295,"date":"2015-12-27T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2015-12-27T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T15:03:09","slug":"massachusetts-judge-rules-against-catholic-school-in-gay-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2295","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts judge rules against Catholic school in gay firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Massachusetts court has ruled that a Catholic school?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2015\/12\/23\/mass-judge-rules-against-catholic-school\/\">discriminated against a gay man<\/a> when they rescinded an offer of employment because they discovered he was married to a man.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Associate Justice Douglas H. Wilkins ruled that Fontbonne Academy?violated that commonwealth&#8217;s anti-discrimination laws. This is believed to be one of the first times that a religious institution has lost an employment discrimination case on the grounds of sexual orientation being protected from discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A Massachusetts court has ruled that a Catholic school?discriminated against a gay man when they rescinded an offer of employment because they discovered he was married to a man. Superior Court Associate Justice Douglas H. Wilkins ruled that Fontbonne Academy?violated that commonwealth&#8217;s anti-discrimination laws. This is believed to be one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[296,534,533,532],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-employment","tag-glbt-discrimination","tag-judge","tag-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}