Split 9th Circ. To Rehear Ministry's Anti-LGBTQ+ Hiring Case

By Rachel Riley ( June 18, 2026, 10:59 PM EDT) -- The Ninth Circuit on Thursday nixed a panel's recent ruling that the First Amendment shields a Christian ministry's practice of rejecting gay job applicants, granting Washington state's bid for a full-court rehearing while drawing protest from one appellate judge that the court has "relegated religious liberty to a second-class right."...

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