Monday, January 10, 2011
University Of Kentucky In Religious Discrimination Case
KENTUCKY....
The University of Kentucky has found itself in the middle of a religious discrimination case being watched nationwide. At issue is whether UK decided not to hire C. Martin Gaskell, a candidate for director of its observatory in 2007, because of his religious views. In November, U.S. District Judge Karl S. Forester rejected a motion for dismissal filed by UK, allowing Gaskell vs. University of Kentucky to go to trial February 8th. Gaskell's suit claims the university violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which banned employment discrimination on the basis of religion. Francis Manion of the American Center for Law and Justice and one of Gaskell's attorneys, asked during a pre-trial conference in U.S. District Court last week whether the case would be going to trial if the issue was one of racial, rather than religious, discrimination. Gaskell, a research fellow at the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin, was an unsuccessful candidate in 2007.
The University of Kentucky has found itself in the middle of a religious discrimination case being watched nationwide. At issue is whether UK decided not to hire C. Martin Gaskell, a candidate for director of its observatory in 2007, because of his religious views. In November, U.S. District Judge Karl S. Forester rejected a motion for dismissal filed by UK, allowing Gaskell vs. University of Kentucky to go to trial February 8th. Gaskell's suit claims the university violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which banned employment discrimination on the basis of religion. Francis Manion of the American Center for Law and Justice and one of Gaskell's attorneys, asked during a pre-trial conference in U.S. District Court last week whether the case would be going to trial if the issue was one of racial, rather than religious, discrimination. Gaskell, a research fellow at the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin, was an unsuccessful candidate in 2007.
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