A Marietta choir director has filed a federal complaint saying he was forced to resign from his job because church members complained about the fact that he is gay.
Ira Pittman had worked at Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church for more than 20 years. His complaint which was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and shown to WABE comes as the United Methodist Church is in the midst of a debate about possibly changing its rules on LGBT exclusions. The church’s international gathering, the General Conference, in which changes to doctrine are decided every four years, is this month.
05:10 AM EST Share At JWLA’s first in-person meeting of 2021, Kimberly Hosley says not enough women are making partner.
The Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association convened its first in-person meeting of 2021 on April 8 at The River Club.
It also was the first in-person address during her term for Florida Association for Women Lawyers President Kimberly Hosley, the keynote speaker.
A graduate of Stetson University and the Emory University School of Law, Hosley practices real estate law with The Orlando Law Group.
She said one of her initiatives leading the state association is to advocate for women lawyers to be compensated equally with their male counterparts in the profession.
the Committee Memorandum, another topic that could receive attention at the hearing is
the recently-introduced resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the OCC’s “true lender” final rule. The rule addresses when a national bank or federal savings association should be considered the “true lender” in the context of a partnership with a third party.
The scheduled witnesses include Brian Brooks, the former Acting Comptroller of the Currency. The other scheduled witnesses are:
Raúl Carrillo, Deputy Director, LPE Project and Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School
Erik Gerding, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Kristin Johnson, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law