A Canadian high school student was suspended for a week because wore a t-shirt promoting his Christian beliefs and he was told if he wears it again – he could be suspended for the remainder of the school year.
William Swinimer, a student at Forest Heights Community School in Nova Scotia, was punished for wearing a shirt that read, “Life is wasted without Jesus.” The shirt is a reference to a passage of Scripture from the New Testament.
via School Says “Jesus” Shirt is Hate Speech | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes.
Silly.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Yet some of the other t-shirts I have seen are still allowed. Sigh. I say uniforms all the way.
More details on that story here:
http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/05/03/suspended-nova-scotia-student-defiantly-wears-t-shirt-with-pro-jesus-message/
Update:
http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/05/07/after-t-shirt-kerfuffle-boy-leaves-school/
There seems to be more to this story than just wearing a particular t-shirt. Possibly the 19-year old was doing some preaching in the playground and telling students of their eternal destination without Jesus (i.e. Hell) and that’s really what they found offensive. But complaining about the t-shirt was an easier, more tangible, target.