The Wyoming Rescue Mission in Casper, Wyoming, sued the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services to protect its right to hire employees who affirm the nonprofit group’s Christian beliefs.
In 2020, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal district court in Wyoming, the mission refused to hire a “self-proclaimed ‘non-Christian’” for a thrift store associate’s job.
The post required that teaching workers in the group’s Discipleship Recovery Program “spread the Gospel and model Christ.”
The nonprofit said the recovery program uses a one-year “Bible-based addiction recovery model” to address the needs of those with alcohol and drug addiction.