This one comes from South Africa, where a Pretoria High Court judge has ordered the NG Kerk Moreletapark to apologise unconditionally to a music teacher it fired because he is in a gay relationship.
The country's IOL news website tells us:
Pretoria High Court judge has ordered the NG Kerk Moreletapark to unconditionally apologise to a music teacher it fired because he is in a gay relationship.____________
Judge Dion Basson found that the congregation had unfairly discriminated against Johan Strydom when they fired him from their arts academy in 2005.
He said the constitutionally-protected right to equality outweighed the church's right to religious freedom.
The judge ordered the church to pay Strydom almost R87 000 for the impairment of his dignity, emotional and psychological suffering and loss of earnings.
Hat tip: Barry Duke at the Freethinker
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