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Smithsonian to Pay $50,000 to Ousted Tourists Wearing Pro-Life Attire
Christian Headlines ^ | 3/26/24 | Milton Quinallila

Posted on 03/27/2024 10:35:26 AM PDT by CFW

The Washington D.C. based Smithsonian Museum recently agreed to pay $50,000 to tourists who were previously kicked out for wearing pro-life apparel.

According to CBN News, The National Air and Space Museum agreed to pay the settlement to a group of 12 plaintiffs, who are students of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School in Greenville, South Carolina, and their parents.

The students initially filed a lawsuit after visiting the museum during the March for Life rally on Jan. 20, 2023. At the time, they all wore beanies with the words "Rosary PRO-LIFE" as they toured the Smithsonian.

The American Center for Law and Justice, which represented the plaintiffs, noted that "Museum staff mocked the students, called them expletives, and made comments that the museum was a 'neutral zone' where they could not express such statements."

An employee "ultimately forced the students to leave the museum... rubbing his hands together in glee as they exited the building."

(Excerpt) Read more at christianheadlines.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christians; discrimination; freespeech; settlement; smithsonian
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Good! They should have to pay---and it should have been out of those employees' pockets.
1 posted on 03/27/2024 10:35:26 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Government censorship is all around us. And some people on the Supreme Court like it and worry that Freedom of Speech will hamstring the government.


2 posted on 03/27/2024 10:37:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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Good start!
Either paid out of the employees salary or they should be terminated without benefits.


3 posted on 03/27/2024 10:38:36 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: CFW

Shame on the Smithsonian for allowing this to happen. Were those employees fired?


4 posted on 03/27/2024 10:39:02 AM PDT by Trumpette1954 (Live laugh love!)
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To: CFW

should have been a fine of $455 million


5 posted on 03/27/2024 10:40:33 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Trumpette1954

Promoted, more likely


6 posted on 03/27/2024 10:41:11 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: CFW

These people ought to open a T-shirt start-up business with their windfall.


7 posted on 03/27/2024 10:43:12 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: CFW

When will us unvaccinated get our Reparations for what they did to us


8 posted on 03/27/2024 10:43:36 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: CFW

Imagine had this been your typical token minority group wearing BLM shirts.

You think every national news outlet would ballyhoo this event for days to come?


9 posted on 03/27/2024 10:46:27 AM PDT by Nifty
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Who was that em[ployee who made the studemts ;eave. NAME HIM or HER.

Where is the accouhtability for the violation of freedom of speech.

The person who did that needs to face public scrutiny, and they need to be criticized for theior intolerance of all Americans.

Without that accountability on public, we will copntinue to degrade a civil society of freedom into a totalitarian society ruled by fear of government at the hands of woke fascists. .


10 posted on 03/27/2024 10:46:28 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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What about training?

Make the employees listen to Christian and Conservative view points to make sure they can handle it.


11 posted on 03/27/2024 10:47:26 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: butlerweave

Never forget, Never forgive.


12 posted on 03/27/2024 10:47:54 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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Hahahahahaha


13 posted on 03/27/2024 10:50:47 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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Just FYI, if you didn’t already know. Washington is 90% blue. You have zero friends there. That is why it must be completely destroyed and moved to the geographical center of the US. This must happen. Washington has fallen.


14 posted on 03/27/2024 10:54:14 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Trumpette1954

Ha!

That’s funny right there!

You’re kidding, right!?


15 posted on 03/27/2024 10:56:39 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I hope that’s $50,000 each, which is still not enough. The workers who called the Catholic students “expletives” should lose their jobs for breaking the “neutral zone” rule.


16 posted on 03/27/2024 11:00:02 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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Should have been more money. Smithsonian is mostly tax-payer funded and these students had their constitutional rights violated.


17 posted on 03/27/2024 11:00:37 AM PDT by vivenne (⁹)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

More like 95-98%.


18 posted on 03/27/2024 11:01:21 AM PDT by vivenne (⁹)
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It’s a shame outfits like, American Center for Law and Justice, have to spend time and $$$ on this.

There are much bigger items destroying this country.


19 posted on 03/27/2024 11:20:07 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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They should have received $100 billion given the size of verdicts against Trump.


20 posted on 03/27/2024 11:25:49 AM PDT by alternatives?
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