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It seems that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has taken an interest in a local issue — whether or not Catholic University’s decision to segregate dorms by gender squares with the District’s Human Rights Act.

According to the ABA Journal, Scalia referred to the ongoing debate over the university’s new same-sex dorm policy during a speech at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh on Saturday.

“I hope this place will not yield—as some Catholic institutions have—to this politically correct insistence upon suppression of moral judgment, to this distorted view of what diversity in America means,” he said.

Two weeks ago, George Washington law professor John Banzhaf squared off against the university, arguing before a city mediation board that the decision to segregate dorms violated the Human Rights Act. The act prohibits discrimination in housing by public and private institutions in the city, and allows exceptions only if a “business necessity” without which an institution could not function can be shown.

Banzhaf argued that Catholic President John Garvey’s admission in a June op-ed that the decision was motivated by concerns over binge drinking and hookups proved that same-sex dorms weren’t being promoted because of fealty to religious dogma more than secular concerns.

The university hasn’t commented on the proceedings.