British Christian Actress Fired Over Biblical Beliefs May Face $414,000 In Legal Fees

British actress Seyi Omooba is facing massive legal fees after she sued the theater and her former agency for what was seen as homophobic Facebook posts.

The day after the Christian was cast in the production of The Color Purple, the emergence of an old Facebook post in which she quoted the Bible was discovered. In a post from September 2014, Omooba stated that Christians should take a stand against homosexuality.

“It is clearly evident in I Corinthians vi, 9-11 what the Bible says on this matter,” she stated back in 2014. “I do not believe you can be born gay, and I do not believe homosexual practice is right.”

With her career in ruins, the 25-year-old is sued, saying she was a victim of religious discrimination. The actress was also no longer even invited to auditions.

However, she has been unsuccessful in her case and now faces a massive legal bill. The judges with the Employment Tribunal London who heard Seyi Omooba’s case said her claims for discrimination, breach of contract, and harassment would not go forward. They ordered her to pay the legal fees to her former agency and Curve in Leicester, where she was due to perform, even though the tribunal is supposed to be a cost-free forum. 

British group Christian Concern represented the actress in her legal battle against Leicester Curve Theatre and her agency, Global Artists, for breach of contract and anti-Christian discrimination.

Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, claimed that the decision to fire Omooba went further than mere censorship in the United Kingdom. 

“Indeed, Seyi’s case is not merely another example of anti-Christian censorship and discrimination in modern Britain. It throws a dramatic limelight on the darker depths of 21st-century totalitarianism. Where stabbing a colleague in the back is not merely within the norm, but a professional duty. Where having once deviated in your mind from the ideological orthodoxy, you cannot trust anyone or anything: even a favorite book of your adolescence may be suddenly re-interpreted to become an indictment against you,” Williams said. 

“This was an unusual case for Christian Legal Centre, with unusual strengths and unusual weaknesses. On one view, this should have been simply an open and shut case of unlawful religious discrimination. Seyi was dismissed because of her Christian beliefs, and that is the end of the matter – the law does not accept any excuses for that. However, because Seyi’s legal case was so strong, it was fought very fiercely by the woke Establishment. Because it was fought so fiercely, it takes some time to uncover the true story under the layers of ferocious propaganda,” she explained. 

“The Tribunal has effectively joined the campaign of ‘canceling’ Seyi for her Christian beliefs. She and we are not intimidated and have appealed this shocking judgment which is a travesty of reality,” Williams added.