Nov 2, 2026 · 23 min · 15 segments
A University of Kentucky employee asked to be excused from using artificial intelligence at work. He said it violated his beliefs as a humanist. The university granted him a religious accommodation…
And so what is it that he's claiming and how – What's the history of using humanism or kind of non-traditional, many people would say, ideas of religion to claim religious freedom?
It's really if you are being asked to do something that violates your religion, you can ask for an accommodation.
And for a while, and actually there's been some argument about that more recently.
So if they had to do anything more than a trifling of accommodation, they didn't have to grant it.
There's a guy right now who's in a lawsuit about he needed accommodation because he follows what's called the Billy Graham rule.
There's a rule Billy Graham had as an evangelist that he would not be in the loner room with anyone except his wife, a woman who's not his wife, or someone he was related to.
There were a lot of, as you know, televangelists have gotten a lot of scandals.
It was really a, he didn't want to walk in a hotel room, someone would be in there, and then there would be scandals.
And so what is it that he's claiming and how – What's the history of using humanism or kind of non-traditional, many people would say, ideas of religion to claim religious freedom?
It's really if you are being asked to do something that violates your religion, you can ask for an accommodation.
And for a while, and actually there's been some argument about that more recently.
So if they had to do anything more than a trifling of accommodation, they didn't have to grant it.
There's a guy right now who's in a lawsuit about he needed accommodation because he follows what's called the Billy Graham rule.
There's a rule Billy Graham had as an evangelist that he would not be in the loner room with anyone except his wife, a woman who's not his wife, or someone he was related to.
There were a lot of, as you know, televangelists have gotten a lot of scandals.
It was really a, he didn't want to walk in a hotel room, someone would be in there, and then there would be scandals.
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