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(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether religious organizations are shielded from discrimination claims when they turn away applicants for secular jobs who do not share their religious views.
The court denied a bid by Seattle's Union Gospel Mission for review of ruling from Washington state's highest court that said a bisexual man could sue the mission for sex discrimination after he was turned down for a staff attorney position.
The lawyer, Matthew Woods, who had previously volunteered at the Christian nonprofit mission, applied for the job in order to protest its policy of requiring staff to refrain from homosexual behavior, according to court filings.
The Supreme Court first recognized a "ministerial exception" to state and federal anti-discrimination laws for religious groups employing workers with explicitly religious duties in a 2012 case.
In reviving Woods' lawsuit that had been thrown out by a lower state court, the Washington Supreme Court said last year the exception does not apply when a religious employer turns away an applicant who does not share its religious beliefs for a secular job.
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