2 workers with a North Carolina company were fired for not joining company's daily Christian devotionals, according to lawsuit filed by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Two employees with a North Carolina company say they were fired after refusing to participate in the firm's daily Christian prayer meetings, which they said went against their respective religious beliefs, according to a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
It comes on the heels of a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which said a high school football coach in Washington state whoMary Kate Littlejohn, a Greenville, South Carolina, attorney representing McGaha and Saunders, declined comment Tuesday. No one from Aurora Pro Services was immediately available for comment Tuesday and questions on the lawsuit were referred to an email address from which there was no immediate answer.
On occasion, prayers were requested and offered"for poor performing employees who were identified by name," according to the complaint. Also, the complaint noted, the company owner took attendance and would reprimand employees who did not attend. According to the complaint, McGaha said the longer the prayer meetings went, the less tolerable they became. He said he was asked on one occasion to lead the Christian prayer, which he refused. In late August 2020, he asked the owner of the company to be excused from those parts of the meeting that pertained to religion because of his conflict with it, but the owner refused and told him"it would be in his best interest to do so.
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