On March 5, a coalition of three LGBT Catholic organizations and one Catholic leader filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case of Noel Koenke, who’s suing St.
Joseph’s University for anti-LGBT bias. Koenke’s October 2019 federal lawsuit alleges that “hateful” pressure from supervisors to conceal her sexual orientation ruined her career, caused her to attempt suicide and resulted in the dissolution of her marriage.