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CONCOURSE — Religion is a sensitive subject, to put it mildly, so when DNAinfo reported last week that a senior at a Bronx Catholic high school said “F--k Jesus” and was subsequently banned from his upcoming graduation ceremony, readers had all sorts of reactions.
Some sympathized with Latrell Davis, the Cardinal Hayes High School senior who uttered the sacrilegious remark and will head off to Utica College in the fall.
"Whether he was disrespectful [or] not, what Latrell said did not rise to being kept from graduation. My entire graduating class from middle school and high school had our proms cancelled (once for disappearing for three hours on an out of town senior trip, and the other for not identifying a student photographed in our yearbook handing another student a joint), but were never kept from going to graduation. What Mr. Davis did did not rise to that level."
"It was inappropriate and he was rightly made to suffer consequences for what he said. But the school has gone too far in denying him participation in the graduation ceremony."
Others, like this commenter on Twitter, agreed with the punishment:
@DNAinfo The punishment is not excessive. People need to know that there are consequences to their actions.
— A Pink (@IamAndyAPink) June 5, 2015The school's graduation ceremony took place on Saturday, and officials stuck by their decision to not let Davis participate, according to his mother Ebony Martin.
