A PRETORIA High Court judge has ordered the Dutch Reformed Church at Moreleta Park to unconditionally apologise to a music teacher it fired because he is in a gay relationship.
Johan Strydom has won his discrimination case against the DRC
According to this report today, South African Judge Dion Basson found that the congregation had unfairly discriminated against Johan Strydom when they fired him from their arts academy in 2005.
He said the constitutionally-protected right to equality outweighed the church’s right to religious freedom.
The judge ordered the church to pay Strydom almost R87 000 (£6,000) for the impairment of his dignity, emotional and psychological suffering and loss of earnings.
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Good! Why should religion be exempt from the law? I hope a similar case occurs here, if only to give Paul Dacre (Daily Mail editor and Catholic loon) apoplexy.
This is a Victory — God fearing crackpots take note
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[...] Dominee Dirkie van der Spuy, head of the Moreleta Park congregation in Pretoria, was disappointed by the High Court judgment in favour of Johan Strydom, who won his discrimination case earlier this week. [...]
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