Social Security refuses religious accommodation, now Trump executive order forces huge reversal

The Social Security Administration has reversed itself when confronted over its decision to refuse to grant a religious accommodation to an employee.

The news comes from Liberty Counsel, which worked on the case on behalf of an SSA worker who now is protected from requirements he work on issues involving same-sex issues.

“This settlement agreement complies with Title VII allowing the employee to do his job without violating his religious beliefs. There simply was no hardship for the Social Security Administration in accommodating this employee’s religious beliefs. In addition, President Trump’s executive order recognizing biological reality and the binary nature of sex is now helping protect the free exercise of religion and free speech in the federal workplace. People have a right to live according to their conscience and religious beliefs,” explained Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver.

The legal team was able to reach a settlement with the SSA under which the agency is granting the worker an accommodation that allows him to be exempted from policies and tasks “that violate his religious convictions.”

“Under the agreement, he no longer has to adjudicate ‘same-sex marriage’ claims and adhere to other gender-related policies that violate his biblical beliefs on gender and sexuality. After initially being denied a reasonable accommodation, the employee filed a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, which has now closed his complaint making the settlement agreement final,” the report said.

It noted that also playing a role in the settlement was President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that rebukes the false gender ideology.

“Under the order, ‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,’ the federal government now rejects the concept of ‘gender identity’ and recognizes there are only two sexes, male and female,” the report said.

The order provides the worker now “will not be required to perform any actions in connection with his duties that would violate the terms of Executive Order 14168.” This means the employee will no longer be required to address others by false pronouns and use restrooms with the opposite sex.

Under the SSA practices, it recognizes “same-sex marriage,” but under Joe Biden the options had been expanded to include “more than just two genders,” resulting in the agenda calling for using false personal pronouns and more.

“The employee’s sincerely held religious beliefs center on biblical teachings that marriage is between one man and one woman, and that God created people as ‘male and female’ where people cannot change their ‘God-given gender,'” Liberty Counsel said.

The SSA already had proven his case for him, because when the issue arose it assigned him to cases not involving “same-sex” issues with “no negative impact to agency operations,” the report said.

It later claimed that action was, in fact, an “undue hardship.”