Nova Scotia student suspended over "Life is wasted without Jesus" t-shirt

[Devils'Advocate]

I don't know if this was already covered or not, but the school decided to have a forum to discuss the issue and cover the appropriate ways express your beliefs while also showing tolerance towards others.

The kids father pulled him from school that day so that he wouldn't have to attend the forum saying "He will not attend this school unless they are having reading, writing and arithmetic — good old-fashioned academics".

[CarlW]

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

I don't know if this was already covered or not, but the school decided to have a forum to discuss the issue and cover the appropriate ways express your beliefs while also showing tolerance towards others.

The kids father pulled him from school that day so that he wouldn't have to attend the forum saying "He will not attend this school unless they are having reading, writing and arithmetic — good old-fashioned academics".

Not sure what is beneficial about pulling the kid from School? Guess he wants him to always show intolerance towards others and always express his beliefs inappropriately.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

Lol, how surly of him!

Swinimer said he has served a total of about 12 days of in-school suspensions. He said he does proselytize in school, but only to those who listen.
Grade 10 student Riley Gibb-Smith said that's not true. He said Swinimer constantly preaches to the kids, telling them they must become Christians, “and he just won't stop.”

“He tells us we'll burn in hell if we don't confess ourselves to Jesus,” Riley said.

Not much makes me more sick to my stomach in seeing a kids life turned to crap because of idiotic parents and their ######ed beliefs/teachings.

[FlamingC4Life!]

Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

Only a liberal ninny would be upset by someone else's t-shirt, especially something as innocuous as "Life is wasted without Jesus".

It seems to me that Christians are being bullied more and more these days....

Something tells me that if a student was wearing a shirt with a pro-gay slogan on it, it would be celebrated as brave and courageous.

You know what's awesome, my cousin telling my aged grandmother who wasn't overly religous through her life but did attend and was involved with her church for 30-some years, that because she didn't believe in his specific definition of God that she wasn't going to Heaven.

Seems those pushing their religious beliefs on others get their panties in a knot when others tell them to shove off.

The kid was wrong. His shirt was offensive and had no place in a school. His refusal to take it off to "prove his point" just continues to prove the idiocy of this sort of religious message (I'm right and if you dissagree you will suffer). But school's who suspend students for anything other than violent behaviour in order to keep others safe need to figure out just who they are hurting. The kid sitting at home eating his Jesus pops and writting WWJD on everyone's Facebook for a week isn't punishing him at all.

Nice slight at the gay and lesbian community to. Bet if you had your way women wouldn't be able to vote either. Or drive. Or make more money than you do. Funny you chear for a team lead by a highly paid and uber successful BLACK man. Oh the horror, the horror!