Should The Government Be Allowed To Intervene In Church Hires
03.29.11 | Sarah Harnisch  The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to
hear a case on employment discrimination within the Christian
church. The court agreed Monday to hear an appeal in the case of
a narcoleptic teacher who sued a Christian school for
discrimination based on disability. Cheryl Perich was a full-
time teacher at Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and
School in Redford, Mich, but was terminated after she was
diagnosed with narcolpsy. She filed a lawsuit under the
Americans with Disabilities Act, citing discrimination. The
first court ruled in Perich's favor, but the second court
reversed the decision in the school's favor, saying the school
qualified for an exception to the disabilties act because it was
a religious institution. Now the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to
decide whether the church has full power to hire and fire. Luke
Goodrich, Deputy National Litigation Director at the Becket
Fund, is confident that the high court will