550-Year-Old Boys Choir Wins Discrimination Case – IOTW Report

550-Year-Old Boys Choir Wins Discrimination Case

The State and Cathedral Choir is a 554-year-old German tradition that has always had boys. Recently a 9-year-old girl tried out for the choir but was rejected on artistic grounds. The girls mother’s sued for discrimination.

“A Berlin court on Friday ruled that the city’s renowned all-boys State and Cathedral Choir had not been sexist when it rejected a 9-year-old girl’s application.

“The acoustic pattern of a choir is part of its artistic freedom,” the presiding judge said. The court also found sufficient evidence of a “boys’ choir sound.”

The choir insisted the rejection was “not predominantly about her gender” and that she would have been successful had her voice “matched the desired sound characteristics of a boys choir.”  More

8 Comments on 550-Year-Old Boys Choir Wins Discrimination Case

  1. So girls have to become nuns in order to be in a Catholic church choir? An unpleasant truth, boys are different than girls and usually remain so all their lives. Many can be physically enticed into the priesthood if in a Catholic environment, beginning at a very young age. Being in a choir is a status position for a young boy and his family.

    More Victims Counted In Mass Abuse Of Catholic Choir Boys In Germany
    By Amy Nordrum
    01/09/16 AT 4:39 PM
    “The famous group of boys and young men is more than 1,000 years old. Its members sing at the Regensburg Cathedral each Sunday and also perform elsewhere around the world.”
    https://www.ibtimes.com/more-victims-counted-mass-abuse-catholic-choir-boys-germany-2258018

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