Bostock v. Clayton County in 2020 — an employer can’t fire someone based on suspicions that they are queer.“When you have cases of civil rights discrimination, the focus is on ‘Why is this employer treating this person this way?’” says Sunu Chandy, legal director for the National Women’s Law Center.Post-Bostock, however, the high court ruled in favor of religious exemptions from certain exemptions antidiscrimination laws in two cases; those cases did not involve LGBTQ+ people, but the ruling has implications for them.
In the cases, which involved teachers at religious schools, the court ruled that the “ministerial exception” from antidiscrimination law applied to them.