A Christian school worker sacked after sharing social media posts about LGBT+ relationships teaching in school has won a Court of Appeal battle. Kristie Higgs lost her role as a pastoral administrator and work experience manager at Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 2019. She had challenged an employment appeal tribunal judgement, which ruled in her favour but sent the case back to another tribunal for a fresh decision on whether her dismissal was lawful. In the judgement published on Wednesday, three judges ruled in her favour and found the decision to take the case back to an employment tribunal was “unlawfully discriminatory”. In October 2018, Mrs Higgs shared two posts to Facebook about 100 friends under her maiden name, one of which referred to “brainwashing our children”. Another referred to “suppressing Christianity and removing it from the public arena”. The posts referred to LGBT+ teaching at her son’s Church of England primary school, rather than at the school she worked at. In the ruling handed down earlier, Lord Justice Underhill, sitting with Lord Justice Bean and Lady Justice Falk, said Mrs Higgs had posted messages “mostly quoted from other sources, objecting to government policy on sex education in primary schools because of its promotion of ‘gender fluidity’ and its equation of same-sex marriage with marriage between a man and a woman”.
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