A longtime metalworks employee is suing his former employer, Pittsburgh-based Arconic, for religious discrimination after he was fired for expressing on an anonymous company survey his religious-based objection to the use of the rainbow to represent sexual identity.
Specifically, the ex-employee, Daniel Snyder, who is now 63, was offended by Arconic’s choice, in his view, to coopt the rainbow, a religious symbol from the Old Testament, to advocate for same-sex marriage and gender ideology.
The legal complaint (pdf) in Snyder v. Arconic Inc., case 3:22-cv-27, was filed May 18 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa by the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm that focuses on religious liberty….