2022年6月, 网易彩票下载 was notified of an investigation by the Washington State Attorney General’s office 和 a dem和 for copies of confidential employee information 和 internal communications related to hiring policies. SPU believes that the attorney general’s office has targeted the University because of its sincerely held Christian beliefs.
To ensure it can protect its religious identity, SPU specifically asks the federal district court to step in 和 protect its freedoms under the law. It is now in federal court defending its right to hire according to its Christian mission.
这一举措并非没有先例. In the 1980s 网易彩票下载 filed a similar lawsuit against the state of Washington when the state attempted to interfere in SPU’s faith-based hiring decisions. After eighteen months of litigation the state backed down. 从那时起,美国就开始了.S. Supreme Court has only further affirmed the right of religious institutions to make faith-based hiring decisions 和 resolve issues of doctrine 和 practice within their own religious communities free of government interference.