Comments on: “Nobody held a gun to their head and made them enroll at a school called CATHOLIC University” https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:14:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: “No Muslim student at Catholic University has registered a complaint…” https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128988 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:14:39 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128988 […] While a publicity-seeking lawprof has been stirring the pot, it’s by no means clear that any actual Catholic U. students consider it intolerably irksome to pray in a room with a cross. [PJ Media "Tatler", earlier] […]

]]> By: CT_Yankee https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128630 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:58:01 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128630 The University might want to reconsider if people that are offended by Christian symbols and still enroll at a Catholic school are really “college material”.

]]> By: PG https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128588 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:31:01 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128588 Speaking of not getting one’s facts straight before commenting, Yale was obligated for years by the Solomon Amendment to allow military recruiters on campus, precisely because the school didn’t want to give up all federal monies (including loans and grants to Yale students).

Now with the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Yale and several other Ivies are bringing back ROTC. http://www.military.com/news/article/air-force-news/rotc-programs-return-to-ivy-league-schools.html

Although some commenters may regard concerns about discrimination as a laugh line, these schools’ administrations were sincere in their desire to avoid having their gay and lesbian students turned away. Now that that’s no longer an issue, military recruitment and ROTC are welcome, just as veterans have long been welcome as students.

]]> By: Smart Dude https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128563 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:01:57 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128563 I guessing that Bikkolus can’t wait for the federal Gestapo to try and force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions, which they consider to be murdering babies.

]]> By: marco73 https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128542 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:43:08 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128542 Give me a break. Bashing Catholics is so old, and takes no guts.
Come on, try something different. Try starting a Jewish student group at one of the “muslim” charter middle/high schools that keep cropping up and taking state money. See who’s ox is gored then.

]]> By: Marty https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128541 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:22:14 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128541 Didn’t freedom of association once also include freedom of dissociation?

]]> By: John Burgess https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128493 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:18:47 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128493 I’m amused (in a perverse way) by the suit. Legal drollery is always something to note.

Saudi Arabia has a scholarship program to send its students abroad, some 25K of them annually. They–on of the most fundamentalist Muslim countries on the planet–are happy to send them to Catholic universities. In fact, they prefer them to many others.

They are sending them to smaller colleges, some who have never seen a Saudi before. What complaints the students may have is not, to my knowledge, over religious matters. They’re mostly cross communications about classroom expectations.

]]> By: Scott Jacobs https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128491 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:28:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128491 Also, Bikkolus, I would point out that there is no actual discrimination taking place.

The School allows non-Catholics (I suspect they might even let j00s attend class and even – gasp – graduate) to enroll. They allow them to practice their religion.

They just haven’t gone to the trouble to remove from the rooms all Catholic iconography.

And they shouldn’t HAVE to.

I would like for you to show me exactly how much federal money the school receives, and then contrast it against how much Yale gets, a school which refused to allow military recruiters onto campus.

]]> By: Scott Jacobs https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128490 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:24:17 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128490 What makes this even funnier, the guy isn’t actually suing ob behalf of a person – none of the Muslim students who attend the university have thus far voiced a complaint.

]]> By: JimAtLaw https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/10/nobody-held-a-gun-to-their-head-and-made-them-enroll-at-a-school-called-catholic-university/comment-page-1/#comment-128489 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:15:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25315#comment-128489 Well said Leland.

Muslims who want to practice their religion completely removed from symbols of Catholicism should feel free to do so by NOT ATTENDING A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.

The students who are behind the complaint/investigation should be listed by name here and in other forums so that future prospective employers can know to expect baseless discrimination suits.

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