SCOTUS Skips Christian Arconic Worker's Pride Month Comment Suit

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Christian Arconic Inc. employee’s suit alleging his termination for objecting to the company’s use of a rainbow to promote Pride Month violated his religious rights.

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit’s Aug. 14 decision affirming summary judgment for Arconic widened a circuit split on whether firing someone “for sincerely motivated religious speech, without more, triggers an employer’s duty” under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to provide a reasonable accommodation, former worker Daniel Snyder said in his petition seeking review.

The Eighth Circuit, like ...