Liberty University filed an opening brief Friday to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case involving Ellenor Zinski, a transgender woman and former Liberty employee who is accusing the university of violating federal law in her termination.

In the opening brief, Liberty University argued that Title VII, the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protect religious institutions in making employment decisions based on religion, Liberty Counsel, a Christian ministry and law firm representing the university, said in a statement.

“If a single employee can demand that its faith-based employer abandon its religious beliefs to conform to the employee’s worldview, then religious freedom has no meaning,” Liberty Counsel founder and Chairman Mat Staver is quoted in the state

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