Fox Sports' Broadcaster, who spoke against homosexuality and was fired, files suit for religious discrimination

Sports.yahoo.com reports Former broadcaster Craig James is suing Fox Sports in Dallas for religious discrimination.

In 2013, Fox Sports Southwest fired James two days after it hired him upon learning of a statement he made in 2012 while running for the U.S. Senate. During a debate that involved Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and Ted Cruz, James said that being gay is a choice and that “right now in this country, our moral fiber is sliding down a slope that is going to be hard to stop if we don’t stand up with leaders who don’t go ride in gay parades. I can assure you I will never ride in a gay parade.”

Fox Sports Southwest Senior Vice President of Communications Lou D’Ermilio took issue with the comments.

“We just asked ourselves how Craig’s statements would play in our human resources department. He couldn’t say those things here.”

The suit, which was filed Monday morning, claimed James was fired “because of his religious beliefs about marriage and his expression of those beliefs.”

James, who was a star running back at SMU in the 1980s, claimed that what he said during a debate as a political candidate should have had no bearing on his ability to be a football analyst.

“This is very troubling as an employee when your boss holds against you something you said about your belief system nearly 18 months before you were recruited and hired,” James told Breitbart Sports...