Appeals Court Hears Case Of Man Who Claims He Was Fired For Calling Company’s Pride Flag An “Abomination”

April 9, 2024 Christianists, Employment

Courthouse News reports:

An Iowa man told an Eighth Circuit panel Tuesday that he was wrongly fired because he expressed his religious belief that his employer’s use of a rainbow flag as symbol of LGBTQ pride is an “abomination to God.”

Daniel Snyder was fired after he posted a comment on his employer’s intranet site opposing the company’s use of the rainbow flag to symbolize support for LGBTQ rights. According to his religious beliefs he sees the rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant with man and that the company’s use of it is sacrilegious.

“As part of Snyder’s Christian faith, he believes the rainbow is a Judeo-Christian symbol of the scriptural covenant between God and His people, dating back to the time of Noah and the Old Testament Book of Genesis,” Snyder argued in his appellate brief.

Snyder is represented by the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Thomas More Society. They write:

Snyder, a devout Christian, was summarily fired by Arconic in June 2021 for making a single religious comment at work, objecting to his employer’s use of the rainbow—a traditional Christian symbol—to promote “Pride Month.” Arconic claims Snyder’s comment violated its “Diversity Policy.”

“The Biden Administration is seeking to enshrine in federal law that big companies’ ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) policies trump the religious liberty rights of individual American workers,” stated Peter Breen, Thomas More Society Executive Vice President & Head of Litigation.

“Massive companies like Arconic are using their DEI policies to threaten people of faith merely because they express their sincere religious beliefs—here, the Biden Administration has come into court to defend religious discrimination committed by a large powerful company against a single Christian union worker.”

Arconic is a major aluminum manufacturer. Snyder claims that company officials “publicly humiliated” him by “laughing out loud” over his claim that he thought his anti-LGBTQ comment was anonymous.



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