Child suspended for his religious beliefs

[Acid Armageddon]

This is not a religion. It is attention whoring. Expel the little attention seeking bastard. For a forum of people who take a sadistic delight in insulting christians you are all too quick to praise idiots from other "religions".

I agree with this!

 

[Void(null)]

If I was that kids Father, I would be so very proud of him. Come to think of it, I am not that kids father and I am still proud of him as a Pastafarian brother.

Ra-Men.

 

[Lavi]

Dude, it's called 'Use the freaking discrimination laws when they are actually freaking needed'.

 

[Dusty Donuts]

This sounds like some retard's way of getting attention for a dumbass religion that just caught on. "Noodly Appendage" Do they actually believe that this whole thing was created by damned noodles? Earth to idiots -- Noodles didn't exist in any pre-historic time.
OT: This kid is obviously just trying to get attention. I can imagine the dumb grin on his face as he stated his reason. He should have been suspended for longer.
Yes, go on, argue with me that Pastafarianism is the most awesome thing ever.
My opinion: It isn't.

 

[sneakypenguin]

Uh... No matter the religious views, there are articles of clothing which are prohibited in school. Even normally protected expression can be limited in a school setting if it causes a disruption. That's been upheld over and over again by the Supreme Court(Tinker v. Des Moines, Bethel School District v. Fraser, and Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier).

Religious or not, if it caused a disruption in a classroom, or reasonably could be expected to, the school has the right (in loco parentis) to step in and make him change. That's how the school system functions.

The funny part, of course, is that all the people saying "it's an awesome religion, I hope the principal gets punished" would sing a different tune if they didn't just think the religion was kookie and fun. If, for instance, his religion required him to dress in clothes emblazoned with racial and ethnic slurs, no one would be stepping up and saying "b... But it's his religion".

Either be in favor of all disruptive religious expression in school, or none of it

Hey someone who took the time to look at the actual LAW (and SCOTUS interpretation of it) Frederick V. Morse is also another good case. I swear this thread makes me wanna laugh with the rampant (idiocy?) double standard and Lord knows what else on it.

Nice to see someone bring in some actual reason to the discussion, we really need a civics 101 requirement in HS that goes over stuff like this.

 

[Necrofudge]

I think this is a good example of how society, brainwashed as it is by the Christian church, rejects lesser known religions (I personally agree with the Pastafarian faith) so that the major ones can have the bigger slices of pie on their Thursday meetings.

 

[T5seconds]

Best...religon...EVER

A fucking FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER....

God erm... Flying spahetti do I love this kid...

 

[Tears of Blood]

Hearacy!

Well, it's certainly better than heresy, isn't it?

 

[Seanchaidh]

This sounds like some retard's way of getting attention for a dumbass religion that just caught on. "Noodly Appendage" Do they actually believe that this whole thing was created by damned noodles? Earth to idiots -- Noodles didn't exist in any pre-historic time.
OT: This kid is obviously just trying to get attention. I can imagine the dumb grin on his face as he stated his reason. He should have been suspended for longer.
Yes, go on, argue with me that Pastafarianism is the most awesome thing ever.
My opinion: It isn't.

You can't disprove the Flying Spaghetti Monster, so why are you arguing about it? You may just be wrong. But if you accept the touch of his noodly appendage, you could enjoy everlasting satiety.

 

[AWC Viper]

Hearacy!

Well, it's certainly better than heresy, isn't it?

hey, hey, hey.......stop it.

 

[Winter Rat]

The can persecute us, but we will inhereit the earth. Remember, the Roman Emperors persecuted the christians before Constantine. One day a Pastafarian will become President, and then we will be free to erect the holy beer volcano. R'amen.

 

[heyheysg]

The can persecute us, but we will inhereit the earth. Remember, the Roman Emperors persecuted the christians before Constantine. One day a Pastafarian will become President, and then we will be free to erect the holy beer volcano. R'amen.

Also Stripper Factories

 

[Sark]

Nothing can disprove Pastafarianism so it is equally viable.

To those claiming it is a parody religion, I would like you to disprove my claim that Christianity is a parody of Judaism.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

It's a shame that schools tend to punish people for being awesome.

 

[Jedisolo75]

Because the entire religion is a made up religion, the entire point is to make fun of other religions. It is fine if you want to make fun of religion, especially the things that they do sometimes, but you can't interrupt a school day to do it.

actually you can, because the school day is stupid, and if what the school does violates his rights, even because of a disruption, they're still wrong.

and they still shouldn't have messed with him. it's just wrong.

Really, the school day is stupid? Really? Since you can read and write I think that is not true. And they didn't mess with him, he messed with them. He was trying to disrupt the education of other students, they stopped him. That's the end of the conversation.

 

[SonicKoala]

Nothing can disprove Pastafarianism so it is equally viable.

To those claiming it is a parody religion, I would like you to disprove my claim that Christianity is a parody of Judaism.

Parody: A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.

Essentially, the only difference between the two is that one believes in Jesus as the Messiah, and the other doesn't (apart from all the smaller differences). If you've ever read the New Testament, it's pretty clear that Jesus wasn't the funniest of people, and I have a feeling that he wasn't spreading his message for shits and giggles. Not only that, but Christianity doesn't make fun of Judaism whatsoever. Therefore, it's not a parody.

Note - since you were probably being sarcastic, the technical nature of my reply was unnecessary. On the other hand, if you were being serious, you are grossly misinformed and a little bit retarded.

 

[SamuelT]

Kid gets points for doing it, but the school was quite right. You can't come to school in a fully-veiled cloth if you're muslim, so why as a pirate when you want to?

 

[MysticnFm]

Kid gets points for doing it, but the school was quite right. You can't come to school in a fully-veiled cloth if you're muslim, so why as a pirate when you want to?

I'm sure that you would be able to in quite a few schools around the world, If that was truly what you believed.

 

[SamuelT]

I'm sure that you would be able to in quite a few schools around the world, If that was truly what you believed.

Aha! Quite a few, but not all of them. Some schools wouldn't accept you being fully veiled and anonymous. This school won't accept someone being clothed as a pirate.