Supreme Court to hear case of Evangelical Christian who asked USPS not to force him to work Sundays
January 15, 2023 | District of Columbia
The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday said it will hear the civil rights lawsuit of an Evangelical Christian postal worker who resigned from the U.S. Postal Service after it refused to allow him to observe Sunday as the Sabbath.
Gerald Groff of Pennsylvania quit USPS in 2019 after a service of about seven years because the Quarryville Post Office in Lancaster County required him to deliver Amazon packages on Sundays.
“It is unlawful for employers to discriminate against employees on the basis of religion,” said Kelly Shackelford, who heads the legal firm First Liberty that is supporting Groff’s case, in a statement. “It’s time for the Supreme Court to reconsider a decades old case that favors corporations and the government over the religious rights of employees.”
The postmaster initially granted Groff’s request, allowing him to work additional shifts on other days of the week instead, but later the USPS offered only proposals that would require Groff to work on Sundays and thereby violate his conscience…. (Excerpt from The Christian Post)
