Tag: religious beliefs

After meeting with the couple twice, she decided she could not continue working with them due to her religious beliefs. A marriage counselor in Michigan has filed suit against her former employer after she was fired for refusing to counsel a gay couple, claiming it conflicted with her Catholic faith. Kathleen Lorentzen alleges in her federal lawsuit, filed late last week, that the company, HealthSource Saginaw, discriminated against her because of her religious beliefs. Additionally, she also claims her male supervisors physically...

In 2011, same-sex marriage was legalized in New York, and this year the law became a constitutional right. But even so, the freedom of marrying your partner for the LGBT people is still constrained by some. Owners of a marriage venue in New York refused to host the wedding of a lesbian couple, respectively, Melisa and Jennie McCarthy. Robert and Cynthia Gifford, own Liberty Ridge Farm in Albany, and in 2013 they rejected to hold Melisa and Jennie McCarthy’s wedding, as...