Complaint Filed Against Catholic School For Having “Too Many Crosses”
Robert Gehl
May 12, 2015
There are simply too many crosses in Catholic schools, which represent a “human rights violation” that prevents Muslim students from praying.
That’s the insane complaint filed by Law School Professor and attorney John Banzhaf against the Catholic University of America in Washington.
Banzhaf made his complaint with the D.C. Office of Human Rights. He is a professor at the George Washington University across town, BeliefNet is reporting.
Banzhaf takes the Catholic institution to task for acting “probably with malice” against Muslim students in a 60-page complaint that cites “offensive” Catholic imagery all over the Catholic school, which he says hinder Muslims from praying.
The complaint is not coming from any Muslim students and Breitbart says it’s not a “serious” complaint because Banzhaf has a long history of filing frivolous complaints against the Catholic college.
He alleges that the university, “does not provide space – as other universities do – for the many daily prayers Muslim students must make, forcing them instead to find temporarily empty classrooms where they are often surrounded by Catholic symbols which are incongruous to their religion,” according to the Tower, Catholic University’s student newspaper.
Observers say the complaint is stupid on its face and has no real chance of resulting in any action.
“Can you imagine a law professor helping Catholic students to sue a Jewish or Muslim school to demand that the schools install crosses, remove their religious symbols, and allow the Catholics to construct a chapel on their property?” wrote Thomas Peters on CatholicVote.org. “Can you imagine the argument being that Jewish and Muslims schools using their religious symbols and following their faith traditions would be described in the legal brief as “offensive”?!
“Normally I would have confidence that this lawsuit will be deemed without merit, but the way things are going these days, I just can’t be sure anymore. Simply incredible.”
Still, the city’s Office of Human Rights is investigating the complaint and said it could take up to six months to complete the inquiry.
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