{"id":25655,"date":"2025-03-21T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T23:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25655"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T23:41:50","slug":"virginia-judge-rules-christian-university-cant-fire-trans-identifying-employee-who-flouts-its-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/virginia-judge-rules-christian-university-cant-fire-trans-identifying-employee-who-flouts-its-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Judge Rules Christian University Can\u2019t Fire Trans-Identifying Employee Who Flouts Its Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afederal judge in Virginia has ruled that one of the nation\u2019s largest Christian universities cannot claim Title VII protection in its firing of a male worker who only came out as transgender after being hired and completing his 90-day trial period as a new employee.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is seen as setting the stage for an eventual U.S. Supreme Court landmark ruling on transgender rights versus religious beliefs in faith-based workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/03\/virginia-judge-rules-christian-university-cant-fire-trans-identifying-employee-who-flouts-its-values\/\">thefederalist.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afederal judge in Virginia has ruled that one of the nation\u2019s largest Christian universities cannot claim Title VII protection in its firing of a male worker who only came out as transgender after being hired and completing his 90-day trial period as a new employee. The ruling is seen as setting the stage for an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/virginia-judge-rules-christian-university-cant-fire-trans-identifying-employee-who-flouts-its-values\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virginia Judge Rules Christian University Can\u2019t Fire Trans-Identifying Employee Who Flouts Its Values<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25656,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655\/revisions\/25656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}