Louisiana pastor fired from library job for refusing to use preferred pronouns

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, introduces Luke Ash, pastor of Stevendale Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, to a crowd of pastors and elected officials attending a breakfast in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 17. Photo by Peyton Robert
BATON ROUGE, La. (LBM) – Luke Ash, the bivocational pastor of Stevendale Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, was fired July 10 as a library technician by the East Baton Rouge Parish Library because he declined to use pronouns with another library employee that did not reflect her biological sex.