Alaska Airlines is facing a lawsuit from two former Christian employees, Marli Brown and Lacey Smith, who allege that they were victims of religious discrimination due to their opposition to the company's progressive stance on LGBTQ issues.
This comes in the wake of the airline making headlines when a door of one of its planes blew off mid-flight.
The ex-flight attendants claim that they were dismissed from their roles for being "Christians who hold traditional Christian beliefs, including the belief that everyone should be treated with kindness and the belief that there are only two sexes." They argue that the company encouraged them to participate in "open and critical dialogue" about the Equality Act, but terminated their employment when they expressed criticism of its left-leaning political activism.
The lawsuit alleges that Alaska Airlines promised a culture of open dialogue, encouraging employees to engage in difficult conversations and share diverse perspectives. However, when Brown and Smith posted a comment on the company's employee-only message board questioning the company's support for the proposed Equality Act, they were treated as safety risks and subsequently fired. The company's refusal to reinstate them, despite reinstating flight attendants who had made racist remarks or behaved inappropriately, is seen as evidence of its disdain for employees with traditional Christian beliefs.
The former flight attendants are represented by Stephanie Taub, Senior Counsel for First Liberty Institute (FLI). Smith told Fox News on Friday, "I went to access my schedule in the morning I saw that Alaska had posted an article that just said Alaska supports the Equality Act. There are a lot of different religious people who had issues with the Equality Act. And I guess I just had some questions with Alaska in terms of what that meant when they said things like, 'Alaska supports the Equality Act' What does that mean for me?"
The lawsuit was filed in 2022, with the FLI filing a motion for summary judgment on Wednesday. The Association of Flight Attendants union is also named in the complaint.
Newsbusters reports, "Beyond the allegations of this lawsuit, Alaska Airlines also offers to refund travel costs up to $4,000 for employees who wish to kill their unborn children. The woke airline also embraces Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and gender ideology. In fact, in a March 2023 DEI statement, the company strongly implied they were racially discriminating in hiring."
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