'This is an issue of equality': Maryland law to allow religious garments in college sports

By Amy Li, CNN

Updated 0854 GMT (1654 HKT) July 20, 2022

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(CNN)«We had to make this really tough decision between our love for our faith or our love for sports.»

Simran Jeet Singh, a Union Theological Seminary lecturer who studies religion, racism and justice, recalls his own experience of fighting for inclusion as a turbaned Sikh college athlete. Growing up in Texas, he says his brothers were often denied the right to play college sports because of their turbans, a religious head covering worn by men of the Sikh religion. His is one of the voices welcoming the US