Former members of the Christian parachurch organization told U.K. newspaper The Guardian that the justice’s “lifelong and continued” membership means she cannot be impartial in the case of a web designer who says her religious beliefs prevent her from offering her services to same-sex couples.

People of Praise believes that sex should occur only within marriage, and that should be only between a man and a woman, its leader Craig Lent told the South Bend Tribune in 2018.

He added that homosexual attraction was not considered sinful, but acting on it was. Lent also said the group would end the membership of anyone who admitted to engaging in gay sex or any other “ongoing, deliberate, unrepentant wrongdoing.”

Newsweek has contacted People of Praise and the Supreme Court for comment.

Barrett also served for almost three years on the board of private Christian schools established by People of Praise that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents. It was understood that openly gay teachers were not welcome, The Associated Press reported in 2020.

Policies that discriminated against LGBTQ people and their children were reportedly in place for years at Trinity Schools Inc., before and after Barrett joined the board in 2015 and left in 2017.

People who worked or attended the schools and former members of People of Praise told the AP that Trinity’s leadership communicated anti-LGBTQ policies and positions in meetings, one-on-one conversations, enrollment agreements, employment agreements, handbooks and in written policies.

A enrollment agreement from the 2018-19 school year that was obtained by the AP said “the only proper place for human sexual activity is marriage, where marriage is a legal and committed relationship between one man and one woman.” It also said activities such as “fornication, pornography, adultery and homosexual acts, and advocating or modeling any of these behaviors” are at odds with the school’s core beliefs.

A faculty employment agreement in place for the 2014-15 school year said: “Blatant sexual immorality (for example, fornication, adultery, homosexual acts, etc.) has no place in the culture of Trinity Schools.”

Barrett, a devout Catholic, has not publicly discussed her reported decades-long association with People of Praise, and it was not mentioned during her October 2020 confirmation hearings.

The AP reported in September that year the group had sought to erase all mentions and photos of Barrett from its website.

Founded in 1971 in South Bend, Indiana, People of Praise is a community of about 1,700 with 22 branches in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, according to its website.

The group includes people from several Christian denominations, though the majority are reportedly Catholic.