Massachusetts’ top state court on Friday said a professor of social work at an evangelical Christian college was not a “minister,” and could pursue claims that she was denied a promotion for criticizing the school’s anti-LGBT policies.
The seven-member Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in a unanimous ruling said Margaret DeWeese-Boyd did not teach religion at Gordon College, lead students in prayer or deliver sermons, distinguishing her from other workers who courts have found to qualify for the so-called “ministerial exception” from anti-discrimination laws for religious institutions.
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