Appeals Court Allows Fired Assistant Principal to Sue School for Religious Discrimination

A lawsuit filed by the former assistant principal of a Colorado high school, alleging he was fired for offering to add a “Christian perspective” to a theatrical production, can move forward after being reinstated by a U.S. appeals court on Sept. 11. Corey McNellis, who had worked at Ponderosa High School in Douglas County for 14 years and was a parent to a child attending the school at the time of the incident, filed the lawsuit in 2022. Lawyers for McNellis alleged their client lost his job as the athletic director and assistant principal at the school in 2020 after asking colleagues what “recourse” he had if he disagreed with an upcoming school play about the murder of a gay college student, which they described as “religiously charged” and covering “distressing material.”...