It’s about free speech and what they are selectively allowing vs. what they aren’t. They slowly chip away at the ideas of the faithful as a perceived threat. Don’t you see the danger of that?

Pardon me if I don’t share your paranoia on this subject. The girl is wearing a ring that does nothing more than identify her, ostensibly, as an adherent to one supposed aspect of the Christian religion. There’s nothing in the Christian faith that says that she has to wear it. On the other hand, Sikhs are required to wear the kirpan, and Muslim females are required to wear the hijab. She’s equating something she wants to wear that happens to be religious in nature with something that other faiths require their adherents to wear. It’s no different than a “WWJD?” bracelet or a “Jesus fish” pin. It’s a piece of entirely-optional religious adornment that violates the uniform restrictions at her school.

No one’s telling her she can’t be chaste or abstinent; only that she cannot wear the ring. Why are we turning this into thoughtcrime?

On June 23rd, 2007 at 11:34 pm, sausage said:
Since when has a chastity ring been an integral part of the Christian faith? It’s not like wearing a cross has been banned, as in the case of the British Airways woman.

It’s about free speech and what they are selectively allowing vs. what they aren’t. They slowly chip away at the ideas of the faithful as a perceived threat. Don’t you see the danger of that?

Christianity is not an iconic religion such as the roman catholic, or hindu religion.

First of all, Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity; the religion is Christianity. That’s why we refer to Catholicism as “the Catholic Faith”. I’m a Catholic Christian. Second, it’s about free speech, (see my point above.)

There’s a part of me that is getting very tired of hearing the same rhetoric over and over again: “If I can’t do this thing, I’m being persecuted”. Technically, that “part” is all of me. I guess Christians shou…

Is it an overreaction? I think so. The ring is a religious symbol, and students shouldn’t be restricted from wearing such symbols, just as I’m sure the married faculty aren’t prohibited from wearing wedding bands (which are purely symbolic and not…

Liars deride the Truth. Their derision is the certification of their lie, they are bondslaves to their darkness.

In fact, I blame hypocritical fundamentalist Christians for nearly everything that has gone wrong in my life

People are weak. That weakness of man has nothing to do with the teachings of the Christian church. You were done wrong but I hope you don’t fault the church.

But the fact is this “training” blinds them to the dangers of Islam and radical, evangelical Atheism. Dr. Rodney Stark has pointed out how it was Christianity that created the Western World, with its emphasis on individual rights. But as Michelle’s favorite person Vox Day aptly put it, the women of the Western world are faced with a choice between “the brothel and the burqa”, if things continue going as they are.

The point is not the design of the ring. It’s what it means that they are threatened by.

I have some somewhat conservative leanings.. but frankly I’m pretty left wing when it comes to my church. I want a church that is inclusive not exclusionary. So to say that I’m not a fundamentalist would be an understatement… In fact, I blame hypocritical fundamentalist Christians for nearly everything that has gone wrong in my life. Before you start the bashing note the emphasis on hypocritical. Not every fundamentalist is a hypocrite… not by a long shot. But several of those I have run across (like my cheating ex-husband who preached about how wrong I was to be friends with homosexuals but was screwing his married secretary) made me ashamed of being a Christian at all until I managed to figure out the difference.

But even as liberal as I am churchwise, I grow weary of the constant bashing of Christians and Jews while we are supposed to turn the other cheek to whatever the Muslims and atheists do to us.

Brian72, you need to market that her in America to the Liberals, using some sort of “progressive” message, along with a “progressive” sounding company name. You would litteraly hit the $$$ jackpot with that idea.