From AP via Yahoo! -
Legal experts question judge's order telling Southwest lawyers to get religious-liberty training
A federal judge has set off a debate among legal scholars by ordering lawyers for Southwest Airlines to undergo “religious-liberty training” by a conservative Christian legal group.
Critics say that if the judge believes such training is necessary, he should have found a less polarizing group to conduct it.
U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr made the decision after ruling that Southwest was in contempt of court for defying a previous order he issued in a case involving a flight attendant who said she was fired for expressing her opposition to abortion. She sued Southwest and won.
Starr, nominated to the bench by former President Donald Trump, said Southwest didn't understand federal protections for religious freedom. So this week, he ordered three of the airline's lawyers to undergo religious-liberty training. And he said that the Alliance Defending Freedom, or ADF, “is particularly well-suited" to do the training.
Ummmm......
ADF has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
Starr is the nephew of noted, and late, conservative ideologue Ken Starr.
Starr was nominated by Cheeto and confirmed by the US Senate on a party-line vote, supported only by Republicans. Even Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, then a Democrat in Name Only, now a Senator in Name Only, voted against confirming him.
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