SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide a case in which the Washington Supreme Court ruled in favor of a lawyer who sued the mission over its anti-LGBTQ hiring policy. Attorney Matt Woods sued the mission in 2017 when it refused to hire him to its free legal aid clinic after he disclosed he was in a same-sex relationship. The mission, one of the largest homeless services nonprofits in the Seattle area, argued it was exempt from the state’s anti-discrimination law as a religious employer. A King County Superior Court judge agreed but the Washington Supreme Court overturned the judge’s decision, kicking the case back to the lower court.
Union Gospel Mission seeks high court ruling on hiring case
