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Past research shows that religion plays an important role in employees’ lives and influences their decision-making and behaviors in the workplace. However, we argue that there is also a need to understand how others evaluate and judge the behaviors of religious co-workers, and the career consequences that result. Across two studies, we examine if the unethical behaviors of religious co-workers are judged differently, how evaluators perceive and judge these religious co-workers, and under what conditions evaluator judgments may be biased. We found that an organizational member who displays his/her Christian identity and behaves unethically will be harshly penalized (Study 1), but that this negative outcome depends on the evaluator’s religion and the severity of the target’s unethical behavior (Study 2). More specifically, a Christian organizational member will be more likely to receive a …