I don’t know if we discussed this story earlier:

washingtonpost.com

Basically, the EEOC will be representing Kaetoya Williams in a discrimination lawsuit. Ms. Williams was offered a job at the “Georgia Blue” restaurant chain. However, she was fired from the job when she did not wear blue jeans to work, per the employee dress code. Ms. Williams is an Apostolic Christian and they believe women should wear skirts. Ms Williams offered to wear a blue jean skirt, but that wasn’t good enough for Georgia Blue. The EEOC says that Georgia Blue engaged in impermissible religious discrimination by not allowing a reasonable accommodation that would allow Ms. Williams to wear blue jean skirts to work.

I actually have zero problem with this. Barring some other argument* why blue jean skirts would be unacceptable, I think this is a reasonable accommodation. What surprised me is the reaction from so-called Christians (I picked this up on the Facebook page of a Christian personality). In their minds, this woman was not a true Christian because she believes in wearing skirts. And because she’s not a true Christian, she can’t possibly have a religious discrimination complaint. Here’s the discussion from FB:

As I said in my response, the EEOC doesn’t care about deciding the truth of religious doctrine. All it cares about is that the woman has a religious belief and the employer should provide a reasonable accommodation. Apparently this is a mystery to these people.

* In law school we were taught to look for those arguments.