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Southwest Airlines was in federal court Monday seeking to reverse a court order to pay $800,000 to a flight attendant who was fired due to her pro-life beliefs. The airline was also challenging a judge’s contempt order<\/a> requiring three of its attorneys to undertake “religious liberty training.”<\/p>\n

In 2017, Charlene Carter filed a lawsuit against the airline in which she said she was unfairly fired from her job as a flight attendant due to her pro-life beliefs. She had been critical on social media of her union\u2019s decision to participate in the 2017 Women\u2019s March, due to its association with Planned Parenthood. A court agreed that she was unfairly terminated, and ordered Southwest to rehire her<\/a>, as well as pay her compensation \u2014 an order it is still fighting.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals began hearing the appeal from the airline, which is challenging the order that it pay Carter, as well as the August 2023 religious liberty training mandate. According to ABC News<\/a>, the airline continues to maintain that it was justified in firing Carter, saying she was fired not for her religious beliefs, but because she violated<\/a> rules requiring civility in the workplace by sending \u201chostile and graphic\u201d pro-life messages to the union leader. The airline is also arguing that the mandated religious liberty training violates First Amendment speech rights of the attorneys.<\/p>\n

Carter is being represented in her lawsuit by the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouthwest and TWU union officials made Ms. Carter pay an unconscionable price just because she decided to speak out against the political activities of union officials in accordance with her deeply held religious beliefs,\u201d stated<\/a> National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. \u201cYet rather than comply with the jury\u2019s decision and the District Court order, Southwest and TWU union bosses have decided to attempt to defend their \u2018targeted assassinations\u2019 against a vocal union critic. We are proud to defend Ms. Carter throughout this prolonged legal case to vindicate her rights.”<\/p>\n

The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Southwest Airlines was in federal court Monday seeking to reverse a court order to pay $800,000 to a flight attendant who was fired due to her pro-life beliefs. 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