主题：【原创】柞里子：有感于美国的合法歧视 -- 柞里子

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But the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State in Washington, said in an interview that the decision "allows a religious body to declare employees to be 'ministers' and then fire them or treat them shabbily for any reason, religious or otherwise. ... It's astonishing."

Leslie C. Griffin, a constitutional law professor at the University of Houston Law Center, who organized a friend-of-the-court brief by law professors on behalf of the fired teacher, said," I think this was a key place for the court to not say that religious employers can treat their employees any way they like. Why would you want to give religions the green light to discriminate?"

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The court's decision will make it virtually impossible for ministers to take on their employers for being fired for complaining about issues like sexual harassment, said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United.

"Clergy who are fired for reasons unrelated to matters of theology -- no matter how capricious or venal those reasons may be -- have just had the courthouse door slammed in their faces," Lynn said.