A gay former student and former staff member at D.C.’s Catholic University of America sent a petition on Monday to the university’s president, John Garvey, calling on him to issue a statement supporting the June 15 U.S.
Supreme Court decision declaring LGBTQ people are protected from employment discrimination under federal law. The petition, written and emailed to Garvey by Nicholas R.
Atlas Jr., includes the signatures from 105 people from throughout the country, including from the D.C. area. Atlas says he worked in administrative positions at Catholic University from 2012-2019.
He received his bachelor’s degree from Catholic University in history in 2012 and a master’s also in history from the school in 2017. “Recently the United