min0 lee

Damn Mormons at it again.

wcbstv.com - Boy Sent Home From School For Dressing As Jesus
Eighth Grader Told His Halloween Costume Was Offensive, Distracting

Reporting
Sean Hennessey PARAMUS, N.J. (CBS) ― A Paramus middle school student was sent home Friday after he came to school dressed up as Jesus for Halloween.

For a few hours, Alex Woinski was the messiah of West Brook Middle School, but like the real Jesus, Woinski was condemned, so to speak.

"Sort of like a new remake of what supposedly happened," Woinski told CBS 2.

Decked out in sandals, a robe, fake beard and thorns, the 13-year-old joined 500 other students at his school's Halloween celebration, and on this day, he was the chosen one - to go home.

"It was offensive to some students," Woinski said, when asked what school officials told him the reason for being sent home was.

Woinski says he wore the costume because friends say his long hair makes him a Jesus lookalike, and were not offended by his costume.

The school says thes costume was a disruption and denies its religious nature had anything to do with it.

"I don't think I overreacted," Principal Joan Broe a former Bio-chemist told CBS 2.

Broe said too many students were drawn to the costume, and that was reason enough.

"Children were [asking], where is the boy who is Jesus Christ?" she said. "It was disrupting the education process."

Woinski's parents agree it was political correctness gone amok.

"I think the whole freedom of speech and expression has definitely had a damper put on it, and this is proof of that," says Kim Woinski, Alex's mother.

But it won't put a damper on Woinski's trick or treating. This Jesus has been resurrected for Friday night.

Woinski has developed an interest in religion. His mother is Catholic and his father is Jewish. He recently celebrated his Bar Mitzvah and his also studying Bible scripture.

His school says this was the first time anyone had ever dressed up like Jesus. They say other students were ordered to alter their costumes because they were deemed inappropriate.

maniclion

I'm going to wear a construction outfit and say I'm the modern day Jesus.....You know how they ask what kind of car would Jesus drive a hotrod or VW Minibus I think he would be in a big Dodge Ram with an aluminum rack on the bed for plywood and ladders.....

Makes you wonder, WWJW for All Hallows Eve?

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone

bio-chem

eh, come again?

min0 lee

Just a joke.

maniclion

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone

bio-chem

Hoglander

Little Wing

dammit, i missed that.

"MUSCLE IS TRULY GUARANTEED IF YOU WILL HONESTLY work out to BE YOUR VERY BEST -

GO FOR IT!!! BECAUSE YOU CAN!!!!!!

Take Care, John H."

min0 lee

KelJu

That is discrimination. You can go as Satan or a demon, but Jesus is out of the question?

Fucking stupid ass public school system. I am so glad I am out of there.

bio-chem

I think it was way overboard sending the kid homw, but dont you think it would have been in poor taste to come as budha, or a hindu God?

min0 lee

Not for me.

pyromaniac327

Lol a kid did it in my school too, except he brought a big wooden cross and carried it on his back.

The school made him change out of it.

bio-chem

why mock someones faith?

min0 lee

Why mock Dracula, Zorro or a Ghost.

People are too sensative nowadays. My brother in law was penis.

busyLivin

Seriously?

bio-chem

and would that be appropriate at a school? I agree, i think people are too sensitive. I've already said I don't think the boy should have been sent home. I might have had him remove the crown of thorns, but i wouldn't have sent him home.

clemson357

He should have known Christianity is illegal.


Wait, isn't their a free exercise clause in the Bill of Rights?

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DOMS

Schools are bastions of political correctness. From grade school on up to college.

Political correctness leads to a whole lot of dumb shit moments and thinking. In Salt Lake there's a high school (West High School, I think) where the black principle has black history month twice a year.

Just like Affirmative Action, which has its roots in political correctness, it creates more problems than it solves.

My kids are getting to the age where they'll start running into that sort of shit, and I guarantee you that'll I'll show up at the school and put my (figurative) boot up someone's ass when it does.

KelJu

Not in the least. Its Hallo=fucking-ween. Dress up as whatever you like. People have no sense of humor.