Sixth Circuit Rules Employee Cannot Claim Religious Exception To Providing Social Security Number

A federal district judge in Ohio, U.S. District Judge James Gwin, had ruled that a Christian fundamentalist cannot claim religious discrimination against a potential employer because he felt that social security numbers are the "mark of the beast." And, the US Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit has affirmed that ruling finding that an employee’s Social Security number is a “requirement imposed by law” rather than an “employment requirement.”

From Raw Story:

Donald Yeager, of Austintown, Ohio, was accepted in 2012 as an intern at FirstEnergy in western Pennsylvania, but he eventually lost the position because the company would not process his application without a Social Security number, reported the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

He believes that the government-issued, nine-digit identification numbers are foretold in the Book of Revelations and associated with the Antichrist, and he renounced his Social Security number at 18.

U.S. law refers to Social Security numbers in a statute numbered 666 – which is commonly understood as the biblical “mark of the beast.”

You can read the entire opinion here.