After being fired, the lesbian took the Kentucky Baptist Home for Children, to court for religious discrimination.  Courts rejected that claim in 2001 and have now dismissed her other claim that the Home violated the Establishment Clause by promoting religion with federal funds.  Robert Muise with the Thomas More Law Center.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if they kept pressing this particular case.  But we got a very good decision at the district court level—one that I think is well grounded in the law.”

But Matt Barber of Concerned Women for America says these cases may eventually take a different turn if Senator Ted Kennedy succeeds in passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act also known as ENDA.

“Organizations like the Kentucky Baptist Home for Children would be forced to hire cross-dressers and people who engage in immoral homosexual conduct under penalty of law.”

Tom McClusky with the Family Research Council says ENDA advances special rights for homosexuals and takes away religious freedoms – therefore making it unconstitutional.

“It pits government against the church – even though there are some religious exemptions included in the current bill, it’s only for direct religious denominational groups – it’s not for an organization that services a church, it’s not for schools that are associated with a church.”

And he says ENDA pits government against businesses.