(ANSA) - BOLZANO, JAN 28 - After the Cardinal of Vienna, Christoph Schoenborn, now the bishop of Innsbruck Hermann Glettler also rejects the ban on wearing the veil in schools. The new Austrian popular and green government wants to extend the ban, currently in force in elementary schools, to middle schools up to the age of 14. "Are we sure they want to put a religion to the pillory?" Asks Gletter in an interview with the Tiroler Tageszeitung. For the high prelate, the initiative is "suspect" and "counterproductive". The veil - according to Gletter - "is a cultural and not so religious symbol". "My approach is neutral, even my grandmother did not wear a handkerchief on her head," adds the bishop, stressing that he does not want "a war of religious symbols".
Gletter also remembers that it is the atheists and not the Muslims who contest the crucifix in the classrooms.
Austria: church against headscarf ban
2020-01-28T14:07:39.448Z
After the Cardinal of Vienna Christoph Schoenborn, now the bishop of Innsbruck Hermann Glettler also rejects the ban on wearing the veil in schools. (HANDLE)
