Killinger v. Samford University

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• affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant religious organization
• also looking at whether the purported “religious organization” was founded, controlled, and funded by sectarian institutions
• the institution is not required to demonstrate any “causal relationship” between a specific religious policy and the employee’s termination from her “secular” position to invoke the exemption
• no need for institution to engage in a \strict policy of religious discrimination\ to be entitled to the exemption
• “Samford was founded as a “theological” institution in 1841 by the Alabama Baptist State Convention (the “Convention”).”
• no need for an educational institution to engage in a “strict policy of religious discrimination” to be entitled to the exemption

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