The first openly transgender Evangelical Lutheran bishop filed a lawsuit against the church Wednesday alleging he was pushed from his post after enduring a year of discrimination and harassment.
The Rev. Megan Rohrer claims the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America forced him to resign in June — a year after he was elected to his post– after letting him take the fall for alleged racist behavior
In his lawsuit, Rohrer alleges he only resigned from the San Francisco-based post because the high-ranking members of the church created a “hostile work environment” from his first day on the job in May 2021.
He claims he was deliberately misgendered, ridiculed for featuring drag queens at his ordination and harassed for being transgender.
He is seeking monetary damages.
[“How transphobic that an evangelical group would find drag queens distasteful and worthy of contempt, especially at the ordination of their clergy! The nerve of them!” How did they not dump this creature sooner? Ah. San Francisco. ~ Beege]
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