Student at Sonoma State University (California) Ordered to Remove Cross Necklace, for Fear It Might Offend Other Students

Are the other students vampires?

Unbelievable.

I don't know how "official" a demand this was; the story says a "supervisor" told her to remove the necklace. I don't know if this is a professor, or some idiot administrator, or some thuggish student empowered to direct other students.

I know it's terrible either way, but it's more terrible if this is the official, considered position of a state funded university, which therefore acts as an agent of the state.

A Sonoma State University student has filed a religious accommodation request after she said she was ordered to remove her cross necklace because it might offend other students.

On June 27 Jarvis was working for the university’s Associated Students Productions at a student orientation fair for incoming freshmen. During the event, her supervisor directed her to remove the cross necklace.

Sasser said the supervisor told her that the chancellor had a policy against wearing religious items and further explained “that she could not wear her cross necklace because it might offend others, it might make incoming students feel unwelcome, or it might cause incoming students to feel that ASP was not an organization they should join.”

“My initial reaction was one of complete shock,” Jarvis told Fox News. “I was thrown for a loop.”

I imagine so. I'm thrown for a loop just reading about it third-hand.

posted by Ace at 01:09 PM

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