A court in Kraków, Poland has decided that IKEA must re-employ a worker who was let go for citing the Bible in opposition to the LGBT community on an internal company forum, according to a report from Remix News.

The court ruled the dismissal unlawful and ordered the company to pay the employee’s court expenses.

The legal dispute started in 2019 when IKEA ran a positive article about the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. In response, the worker, Janusz Komenda, wrote on the internal forum that acceptance and promotion of homosexuality and other deviations is immoral and cited passages from the Bible that consider same-sex relations as obscene and immoral.

IKEA fired Komenda for “anti-social behavior,” according to Remix, and for allegedly losing the trust of his employer.

However, lawyers from the Polish Ordo Iuris legal institute argued that the real reason for his dismissal was his expression of his Catholic beliefs.

According to Ordo Iuris, IKEA’s decision violated the Polish constitution, which guarantees the right to hold religious beliefs and to express one’s faith, as well as Polish labor laws and the European Human Rights Convention, which protect the right to express deeply held religious views.

In December, another Kraków court upheld an appeal against a separate court verdict that dismissed the prosecution against the HR manager who fired Komenda. That case will now go to the Supreme Court.

Ordo Iuris claims that IKEA’s actions against Komenda represent discrimination against Christians in the workplace, as the employee was forced to accept the ideology of others while being denied the right to express his own views.