A national museum in Washington, D.C. has agreed to pay tourists visiting their facility $50,000 after they were kicked out for wearing pro-life apparel.
The National Air and Space Museum agreed to pay the settlement to cover attorney’s fees, expenses, costs, and interest for the students of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School in Greenville, South Carolina, and their parents.
The group of 12 plaintiffs filed a lawsuit after visiting the museum on the day of the March for Life rally on Jan. 20, 2023.
They were all wearing beanies featuring the words “Rosary PRO-LIFE” as they toured the museum.Â
According to the American Center for Law and Justice, which represented the plaintiffs, “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.”
Meanwhile, other museum patrons were wearing all kinds of hats without issue, the ACLJ reports.Â
“It’s absolutely outrageous, it’s unconstitutional discrimination, and the ACLJ is fighting back,” Jordan Sekulow, an attorney and executive director of the ACLJ, wrote at the time.
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