Thu Aug 10, 2023 – 10:59 am EDT
DALLAS (LifeSiteNews) — Southwest Airlines must take an eight-hour course on religious freedom from a prominent Christian legal group, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
Judge Brantley Starr ordered Southwest to pay for the travel, meals, and training for a representative of Alliance Defending Freedom to come to Texas and instruct the company’s attorneys on religious freedom. The order comes after Southwest violated prior court rulings relating to its discrimination against pro-life flight attendant Charlene Carter.
The pro-life flight attendant won a $5.1 million lawsuit in July 2022 after she contended that the airline and the Transportation Workers Union of America violated her rights by firing her after she objected to the union’s use of employee dues to donate to the pro-abortion Women’s March in Washington, D.C.
“The Court ordered Carter reinstated, enjoined Southwest from discriminating against the religious beliefs of its flight attendants, and ordered Southwest to notify its flight attendants of Title VII’s prohibition on religious discrimination,” Judge Starr wrote on Monday. But Southwest did not follow all of the requirements.
The court required Southwest to inform its flight attendants that the company “may not discriminate
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