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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.”