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School Sends Christian Student To The principal–For Wearing Rosary
CULTURE by Andrew McNealy
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If you don’t think there’s a liberal war on Christianity, think again: Tibetts Middle School in Farmington, New Mexico, sent an 8th grader to the principal’s office for “inappropriate attire.”

But Latanyia Clah, the student in question, wasn’t violating the dress code with something like a short skirt or flip flops: she was wearing a rosary.

A rosary–you know, that incredibly important religious symbol?

School officials at Tibetts Middle School were having none of it.

Apparently, rosaries like the ones Latanyia was wearing are, in their mind, considered gang accessories. Because sometimes gang members wear rosaries, or something.

“The dress code is more, ‘what is appropriate or inappropriate,’ and we have come to the consensus that it is inappropriate,” said Assistant Superintendent Frank Stimac, completely unapologetically. “…If [the school official felt] like something is causing an uproar, wh**ever that may be, you have the right to step in and address that.”

A teenage girl’s rosary “caused an uproar” and was a safety concern. Really, Tibetts Middle School? Really?

Latanyia and her family were just as baffled by the situation as we are: since when does displaying Christian faith in a tasteful, non-disruptive way mean Latanyia is in a gang?!

reconreb Loc: America / Inglis Fla.

Who said Lucifer was not real , P.C. is evil and being supported and encouraged by the left wing.

Richard94611

You never do tell us if this young lady was wearing the rosary as a gang sign, though you do admit that gang members sometimes wear them. Maybe the war you think is against Christianity (which I very much doubt) is really a war against gangs. Ever consider that ? There is no war against Christianity in this country, though there are always Christians trying to shove their religion down the throats of others and then, when they are stopped, try to claim there is a way.

SamDawkins

Awe the poor little Christians are persecuted again!.
Amazing how in America with a population, well over 200 million Christians they can still claim persecution! Astounding!

Keep the religion at home and out of school. That seems rather straightforward. They should also stop advertising on TV. If a religion is really all that great people will come to it.

jelun

I am not sure what is tasteful about wearing a rosary as jewelry. That aside, this is hardly a new issue.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-03-16-rosaries-gangs_N.htm


So much for a war on Christianity.
The Catholic rosary isn’t the only religious symbol caught in the wide safety net cast by public school anti-gang initiatives. In 1999, for example, a Mississippi school district barred Ryan Green, an 11th grade Jewish student, from wearing the Star of David. And in 2003, an Oklahoma school district suspended 6th grader Nashala Hern for wearing her hijab, a head scarf she wore to observe her faith.
http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2012/06/13/is-this-what-a-gang-symbol-looks-like/11652

jelun

While I have no particular objection to a rosary being worn as jewelry (it is meaningless, after all), it has a specific use. Maybe these kids need it to pray for good grades.
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/the-rosary

It is pretty obvious that when worn as jewelry it loses the religious meaning.

Richard94611

There is no "war on Christianity." This is a favorite tactic of Christians who are trying to foist their religion on others. When they are stopped, they cry that there is a war on Christianity. For that matter, a few incidents equally spread among religions (headscarves, for instance, hardly constitute a "war." Maybe it is an equal opportunity war (LOL)

jelun

Better get the Satanists in there.

moldyoldy

They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and their most desirable things shall not profit; and they are witnesses to themselves, they see not nor know (Isaiah 44:9-11);

The residue thereof he maketh into a god, his graven image, he adoreth it, he boweth himself down, and yet they know not, neither do they understand; and their eyes do not see, that their hearts may not understand (Isaiah 44:17, 18);


To whom will ye liken God? and what image will ye compare with Him. The craftsman casteth the graven image, and the founder overlayeth it with gold, and casteth silver chains. He that is destitute of an oblation chooseth wood that will not rot; he seeketh him a wise craft man to prepare a graven image that shall not be shaken (Isa. 40:18-20);

jelun

That is probably one of the overlooked items... Old Testament ...for the cherry pickers!

moldyoldy

If you are going to follow it, then follow all of it, or at least try.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

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This is an LTE that I was just published in the Jacskonville Florida local counter-cultural Folio Weekly. It was in response to an editorial stating there is no war on Christianity in this country. I have an additional comment below the LTE's text.

Editor:
Strictly speaking, there is no persecution of Christians in this country such as happened in Rome and the c*******t countries just as County Clerk Kim Shaw’s actions are not h********c which, t***slated from Latin, means fear of homosexuals. There should be a different word for her position and a different word for what is happening to Christians, especially Catholics (of which I am one) in this country.

I am forced to contribute to Planned Parenthood (PP) through my taxes, at gun point, if it comes to that, an organization of such vileness that it should turn the stomach of every human being. Mr. Shaw, perhaps you and your sceptic, Paul Waldman, in this matter can come up with an alternative word.

The recent horrifying revelations aside, unpublicized has been that PP has been as r****t an organization as the Ku Klux Klan. It was the stated objective of PP founder Margaret Sanger to eliminate the genetically unfit from the human pool through selective breeding. Among her unfit were b****s, Hispanics, the r****ded, the insane, anyone with a venereal disease and women who had children out of wedlock. She stated that only about 13% of Americans should be permitted to have children.

She once spoke at a KKK meeting and called b****s ‘weeds & reckless breeders.’ She had a special program, the Negro Project, to eliminate American b****s by enlisting their ministers to endorse birth control programs but she urged her followers not to let them know the purpose. She wrote a letter of admiration to Adolf Hitler on his infanticide program and her Birth Control Review inspired the hierarchy of his National German Socialist Workers’ Party.

So Mr. Shaw, why should I or any decent American have to subsidize Planned Parenthood? And what word would you use to describe it? Or does the fact that Margaret Sanger is considered one of the great progressives of our history shield her & PP from examination and mandate PP’s subsidies?

And if Kim Shaw’s actions are h********c, why isn’t this persecution?



crazylibertarian (RTB) again:
So if Republicans and conservatives can be accused of homphobia and wars on women because they want to suspend or decrease government support & subsidies of certain programs and organizations, why can't we regard the forced support of vile organization like Planned Parenthood with agendas and services we find abhorrent as attacks?

moldyoldy

The GOP has a habit of going crazy about doctored videos or speeches. They swear it is true, then will not believe the actual transcript when read. Just as Fiorino swears she saw a baby on the table at PP alive and kicking. But the video was spliced in from some other video that had nothing to do with PP. But the damage is done and the i***ts are ready to tie PP to a stake and burn them.

jelun

Personally, I don't get the point of having Old and New in one binding if one is going to claim that one is useless.
Why not use footnotes?
But hey, that is an internal discussion...

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

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No matter how edited those videos were, they still show actual conversations.

As far as what Carly Fiorino said and its accuracy, please don't hold me responible for what anyone else says.

And BTW moldyoldy, if that is a picture of you, you should be curious about Margaret Sanger and her Negro Project. A simple web search will bring you to many sources or just go to one, www.blackgenocide.org and search the site for Margaret Sanger.

And don't forget, it's our current president who has most vociferously among all, supported PP. You might find it as ironic as I do.