Sonoma State University Demands Student To Remove Cross Necklace

A student at Sonoma State University has filed a religious accommodation request after school officials ordered her to remove her cross necklace. The unidentified official feared that other students could be offended by her choice in jewelry.

Fox News reports that, Audrey Jarvis, 19, a liberal arts major at Sonoma State, was working for the university’s Associated Students Productions at a June 27 student orientation fair for incoming freshmen.

According to Hiram Sasser, a lawyer representing Jarvis, the supervisor informed Jarvis “that she could not wear her cross necklace because it might offend others, it might make incoming students feel unwelcome.”

Jarvis was then approached a second time to hide the two-inch-long cross under her shirt or remove it altogether and that’s when she became upset and decided to leave the orientation early.

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