BROTHER RICE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL (NOT THE CHICAGO ONE - THIS ONE IS IN MICHIGAN) OFFERS ‘SACRED SPACE’ FOR MUSLIM PRAYER, PARENTS PROTEST - Just one of the many reason people are fleeing the Catholic religion

Complaints have been turned over to the archdiocese of Detroit

BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Catholic high school in Michigan is under fire for the creation of a prayer room for non-Christian students.

Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield, Michigan has received much backlash from parents for creating a non-Christian prayer room within the school to allow Muslims and other non-Christian students to pray, with some calling the decision "unconscionable" and one parent stating that the move will "undermine" her child's paid-for religious education. 

John Birney, president of the Catholic high school, which has around a dozen Muslim students, defends the decision, asserting that the school doesn't "discriminate based on race, creed, color." 

"When the question was 'Is there a place that I can pray?' the answer that evolved was yes," he said, adding that the school has a "'sacred space' available for you if you want it."

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