Gerald Groff, a former missionary and United States Postal Service employee, refused to work on Sundays out of his Christian convictions and will have his case presented to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
When Groff returned to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from the mission field in Nepal and other parts of Asia, he searched for a career which would not force him to work on Sunday, on which the Bible commends resting from one’s labors for public and private exercises of worship. He selected a position at the Postal Service since employees historically were not expected to work on Sundays, a precedent which changed when the agency signed a contract with Amazon to carry deliveries on the first day of the week.
See the full article by Ben Zeisloft, April 14, 2023