By Michael Gryboski, Editor
A Christian nonprofit overseen by theologian Christopher Yuan has filed a lawsuit towards a California-primarily based fully mostly technology firm, accusing it of non secular discrimination.
Yuan’s community, Holy Sexuality, filed a criticism towards Asana, Inc. of San Francisco on Tuesday within the US District Court docket of the Southern District of California.
Essentially primarily based on the lawsuit, Asana refused to present Holy Sexuality a 50% nonprofit reduce impress for the firm’s mission management diagram as a result of the non secular nature of the group.
The lawsuit cited an entry on Asana’s web self-discipline which excludes from their reduce impress “organizations that exist to solely propagate a perception in a specific faith or attain now not present products and companies to folk exterior of a specific faith.”
Asana moreover bars from the nonprofit reduce impress any hospitals, credit unions, academic institutions, and any groups “that recommend, enhance, or discover discrimination in step with age, ethnicity, gender, nationwide origin, disability, trot, size, faith, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.”
The criticism claims that the barring of Holy Sexuality and varied non secular groups from the nonprofit reduce impress constitutes “invidious non secular discrimination” and is “illegal under California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.”
“Folks of faith aren’t 2nd-class electorate in California, and tech companies in San Francisco can not present lesser products and companies to potentialities simply on sage of they’re non secular,” added the lawsuit.
“This Court docket must tranquil thus grant judgment in establish on of Holy Sexuality, expose Asana’s discriminatory denial and published policy illegal, enjoin that policy, expose Asana to cast off its discriminatory adverts and to re-evaluate Holy Sexuality’s application, and award Holy Sexuality damages and lawyer’s charges.”
Holy Sexuality is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a non secular freedom honest nonprofit, which has argued and received non secular liberty cases on the U.S. Supreme Court docket level.
In an ADF press release on Tuesday, Yuan said that he believes the US “used to be founded on the precept of the free instruct of faith — a cornerstone of our democracy.”
“Yet some companies, emboldened by intersectional ideology and anti-Christian sentiment, establish to unlawfully discriminate primarily based fully mostly solely on faith,” said Yuan. “This must cease. California law protects all religions from discrimination. Equal treatment is the bedrock of our society.”
The Christian Submit reached out to Asana, Inc. for instruct nonetheless failed to safe instruct by press time. This article shall be updated if instruct is got.
Yuan is the author of Out of a A long way Country, a e-book that describes his trip from being an agnostic homosexual to becoming a Christian pastor, author and theologian.
In 2018, Yuan released a e-book, titled Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Formed by God’s Gargantuan Yarn, wherein he outlined his belief of “holy sexuality.”
“I clarify ‘holy sexuality’ — now not heterosexuality, now not homosexuality, nonetheless holy sexuality — as chastity in singleness and faithfulness in marriage,” Yuan told The Christian Submit in an interview on the time.
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