Fri Mar 17, 2023 – 2:13 pm EDTFri Mar 17, 2023 – 4:02 pm EDT
NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) –– A federal court has ruled against a New York educational employee who was fired for refusing to attend an LGBT training session that not only conflicted with his religious beliefs but, he says, was intended to change them.
Fox News reports that in 2018, Raymond Zdunski was fired from the Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), a public entity that provides educational programs and services to state schools, for refusing to attend an LGBTQ training and makeup session that, he says, was “aimed at changing his religious beliefs about gender and sexuality,” and “would have caused him to violate the religious teachings to which he adheres.” He sought a religious accommodation, but was denied.
The employer claims he was “terminated for insubordination after he repeatedly refused directives to attend a mandatory cultural competency training program that was designed to facilitate a safe environment for both students and staff consistent with Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES obligations under New York State and Federal laws.”
District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford dismissed Zdunski’s lawsuit last year, claiming that “no facts
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