CULTURE WAR IN THE WORKPLACE.

During that same marriage-equality spring of 2015, in Michigan, Aimee Stephens, a funeral director, was in the midst of her own fight, taking on her former employer, Thomas Rost, and his family business, R.G. But the court also found that Rost was allowed to fire Stephens under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act - a defense ADF had used in the 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop case (which litigated the refusal by an evangelical-run bakery to prepare a wedding cake for a gay couple). "These are the single most important set of explicitly LGBT cases to ever reach the Supreme Court", Chase Strangio, a staff attorney at the ACLU, and part of the team representing Aimee Stephens, told me before October's oral arguments. Later that decade, corresponding with another co-founder of the National Organization for Women (Murray pitched it to Betty Friedan as an NAACP for women), Murray wrote of her "inability to be fragmented into Negro at one time, woman at another, or worker at another". [Extracted from the article]