ruled Sunday in a case brought by Bear Creek Bible Church and Braidwood Management against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Bear Creek is located in Keller, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Braidwood in Katy, a suburb of Houston. The latter is run by longtime anti-LGBTQ+ activist Steven Hotze, a leader of the successful campaign to repeal Houston’s nondiscrimination ordinance in 2015.The church and the company brought the suit against the EEOC, a federal government agency, in response to the Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v.
Clayton County, which held that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is sex discrimination and therefore banned by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.