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Wednesday 1 February 2023

Catholic students kicked out of the Smithsonian ​for wearing pro-life hats

 A dozen Catholic school students were kicked out of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., because they were wearing beanies with a pro-life message.

The American Center of Law and Justice is representing the parents of the students from Our Lady of the Rosary School in Greenville County, South Carolina.

An attorney for the ACLJ told WYFF-TV that the teenagers tried to attend the museum after attending the annual March for Life on Jan. 20.

A mother of one of the students posted to Twitter about the incident. She wrote that her daughter told the man they were wearing the hats in order to identify each other in the crowd attending the museum.

They said that a security guard approached them and told them to either take off the beanies or leave the museum. When they asked why they were being asked to leave, the guard reportedly told them that the museum was a "neutral zone."

Nora Luz Kriegel, a parent of students at the Catholic school, joined a group that wrote the museum to petition for a change in its policies.

"They should be allowed to wear the hats that they were wearing and to be able to express themselves," said Kriegel to WYFF. "And I felt it was very wrong that this person harassed them." 

A spokesperson for the air and space museum released a statement about the incident.

"Asking visitors to remove hats and clothing is not in keeping with our policy or protocols. We provided immediate training to prevent a re-occurrence of this kind of incident, and have determine steps to ensure this does not happen again," said Alison Wood, the museum's deputy director of communications.

Here's a local news report about the incident:

Greenville students removed from National Air and Space Museum for wearing pro-life hats

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