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After Dr. Joseph Kuilema, now a Professor of Social Work at Grand Valley State University, was fired in 2022 from his post at the private Christian college Calvin University for officiating a same-sex wedding. He sued Calvin, where he had worked since 2008, for both retaliation and associational discrimination. Now, the Michigan Supreme Court will decide if that associational discrimination claim — the fact that he was fired over his association with LGBTQ+ individuals — can be heard further in court.