According to Christianity Today’s blog, the Supreme Court has refused to hear Sylvia Spencer et. al. v. World Vision, therefore allowing to stand a verdict from the 9th Circuit Court affirming World Vision’s religious hiring practices. The decision from August 2010 allowed World Vision to end the employment of three employees who were found not to believe in Jesus Christ as God. The ruling applies to “religious organizations”; the court explained that an organization is “religious” if it promotes itself publicly as religious, self-identifying and acting as a religious entity.
World Vision U.S. president Richard Stearns responded to the decision, “Today’s action by the U.S. Supreme Court represents a major victory for the freedom of all religious organizations to hire employees who share the same faith…we may now put this matter behind us and continue our policy of hiring Christians.”
