In a mockery to both organized religion and the 1st Amendment, a family in North Carolina is fighting for the right to wear body piercings in school. Their reason? Is is part of their faith, in the Church of Body Modification.
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RALEIGH, N.C. – A soft-spoken 14-year-old's nose piercing has landed her a suspension from school and forced her into the middle of a fight over her First Amendment right to exercise her religion.
Ariana Iacono says she just wants to be a normal teenager at Clayton High School, about 15 miles southeast of Raleigh. She has been suspended since last week because her nose ring violates the Johnston County school system's dress code.
"I think it's kind of stupid for them to kick me out of school for a nose piercing," she said. "It's in the First Amendment for me to have freedom of religion."
Iacono and her mother, Nikki, belong to the Church of Body Modification, a small group unfamiliar to rural North Carolina, but one with a clergy, a statement of beliefs and a formal process for accepting new members.
It's enough to draw the interest of the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has contacted school officials with concerns that the rights of the Iaconos are being violated by the suspension.
Sometimes people just like to be difficult for the sake of it. If you want to fight for a cause, why not fight for something noble?
I am thinking I want to start my own church. The Church Of Sloth. It will be against our beliefs to work hard at any time. :o)
(ORIGINAL LINK) NC teen: Nose ring more than fashion, it's faith - Yahoo! News
In my opinion the school set itself up for this. She's giving them what they deserve.
ReplyDeletesometimes it seems as though people prefer to give others a hard time....all in the name of "rules" and "rights"...
ReplyDeleteAre you talking about the school, or the girl with the piercing, or both?
ReplyDeletelol....both....
ReplyDeleteI agree
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