The Religion News Service website reports today (January 5, 2012) that a Louisville-area pastor has filed a complaint against St. Stephen Baptist Church -- Kentucky's largest African-American congregation -- accusing the church of reassigning him because of his race.
Pastor Billy Hollins -- who is African-American -- worked for the church from 2001 until last August.
Hollins filed suit in November, saying he was reassigned from the church's satellite location in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 2007, after Senior Reverend Kevin Cosby told him the pastor in Jeffersonville needed to reflect that branch's growing Caucasian population.
Hollins also claims that he was underpaid by the church in worker's compensation payments, after he was involved in a work-related accident in 2010. He said that this led to the church's decision to let him go.
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