The statue of St. Junipero Serra outside the California State Capitol. (Credit: Nathan Hughes Hamilton/flickr)
Posted on 07/17/2021 6:20:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
Thomas More Society alleges in a 49-page lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court of the State of California that removing Serra’s name from high school was illegally enacted and based on anti-Catholic animus.
The statue of St. Junipero Serra outside the California State Capitol. (Credit: Nathan Hughes Hamilton/flickr)
The San Diego Unified School District and one of its school principals targeted the Catholic faith and St. Junípero Serra with an illegal, defamatory campaign to effect removal of St. Serra’s name from a high school in the city’s Tierrasanta neighborhood, the Thomas More Society alleges in a 49-page lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court of the State of California.
The lawsuit alleges the March 9 vote by the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education violated California state law and illegally subjected the Catholic faith to a “lynch mob of erasure and anti-Catholic bigotry.” The board vote was based on disinformation about the popularity of renaming the school and influenced by a “slanderous primer” written by a high school student who supported the name change, the suit contends.
The Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based religious-liberty law firm, warned the school district in an August 2020 letter that the campaign to erase Junípero Serra from the building name showed “unconstitutional hostility toward religion.” In a July 12, 2021 letter to the school board, Thomas More Society special counsel Paul M. Jonna said if the body did not reverse the renaming decision at its July 13 meeting, a lawsuit would follow.
“This is another example of the ‘cancel culture’ mentality that radical leftist people in education are trying to force on an unwilling American public,” said Charles S. LiMandri, another special counsel for the Thomas More Society. “Father Serra was a great defender of the indigenous people of California, and......
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to guard the hallway and to bring us good luck.
El Santo Junípero Serra is a good one.
Junipero Serra was a real saint, from the time of the end of Spanish rule in America, selfless and trying to help.
His story is quite amazing.
I have no idea, why he is being canceled?
Maybe because yet another dead white man?
<>I have no idea, why he is being canceled?<>
It’s in the article.
Yes, dead white man.
That’s unforgivable.
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