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Social Security Administration will allow employee to opt out of same-sex marriage claims

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The Social Security Administration has settled with an employee who filed a complaint alleging the agency violated his religious beliefs by requiring him to deal with claims involving same-sex marriages despite his conviction that marriage is between a man and a woman.

In a statement published on Tuesday, the Christian conservative legal organization Liberty Counsel announced that it had reached a settlement with the Social Security Administration on behalf of an employee who had filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The complaint charged that the agency refused to grant a reasonable accommodation that would have enabled him to opt out of performing tasks that violated his religious beliefs.

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