It might pale in comparison to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision against Proposition 8, but the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled on a gay rights case today. The court held that the CDC did not violate counselor Marcia Walden's rights to religious freedom when she was laid off after refusing to work with a client in a lesbian relationship.
Walden was removed from her job not because of her religious objections to gay relationships, but because she chose to tell the client — identified only as Jane Doe — that her "personal values" prevented her from working with her, the three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled.