from Premier
An evangelical Christian has lost a second employment tribunal case after claiming he was discriminated against when a job centre refused to remove LGBT-related imagery from a workplace.
In 2024, Mark Jennings was offered a role as a work coach in Canterbury, Kent, but said he should not be exposed to Pride or LGBT symbols and requested they be removed before he accepted the job.
He then launched legal action, claiming that his religious beliefs had been discriminated against and that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had failed to make adjustments to accommodate him.
Now, Judge Daniel Wright has published his findings. He began by setting out Jennings’ position: “Jennings requested that no one in the Canterbury office of the job centre, the centre to which he had been assigned, should promote the use of different pronouns, and that no visible imagery of the Pride or LGBTQ+ movements be displayed or celebration of those causes be permitted,” he wrote.