World Net Daily
Religious rights – under fire nationwide, from demands that Christian colleges promote homosexuality to forcing nuns to pay for abortion drugs – are the focal point of a new case in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
There, an Orthodox Jew is alleging she was dismissed from her job at a quasi-governmental authority, the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority, because she observed Passover.
That, according to friend-of-the-court brief filed by The Becket Fund, is outrageous. And a spokesman says the same attitude “didn’t work out so well for Pharoah.”
“It takes some chutzpah for the government to punish a Jewish woman for celebrating Passover,” said Eric Rassbach, the organization’s deputy general counsel.
The Old Testament records how Pharoah’s army of workers, the Jewish people, were freed from his grasp by God’s power through a series of plagues when he refused to allow them time for their religious observances.
The airport authority dispatched an email statement to WND that said the district court judge “determined that the claims of religious discrimination lacked merit.”
“We have no additional comments beyond the filings in the case.”
Susan Abeles, who worked for the airport authority 26 years, had been allowed time each year to observe Passover in accordance with her religious faith.
In 2013, she followed the same procedure she had in previous years, giving her supervisors notice of her plans and several reminders.
Read the rest of Susan's religious discrimination story
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