Organist fired for 'living in sin' wins payout

A German organist and choirmaster who was fired for “living in sin” will be paid €40,000 in compensation, after he took his case all the way to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which ruled he had a right to a private life. Bernhard Schuth, from Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia, was fired from his job as organist and choirmaster in 1994 after the Catholic parish which employed him discovered he had left his wife and was expecting a child with another partner.

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