Multi-tasking
I joined up at Witches Weekly.
Do you wear any religious symbol jewelry/clothing? If so do you wear it openly in public? I generally wear my pentacle in public. It's small and simple, shiny silver, so it's not like I'm wearing an in-your-face pentacle hubcap around my neck. I used to wear a tiny goddess pendant that Anna gave me, and I still do when I'm around my dad's family because we're easing into the whole Wicca thing. Half of them are Baptist, the other half Catholic, so we're still working on the whole "a pentacle is not a symbol of Satan" thing.
How do you feel about the issue of wearing religious symbols in schools and how some young teens are forced to remove their religious fashions? The way I see it is this: a student should be able to wear whatever religious garment/symbol they choose, within reason. Crosses, stars of David, pentacles... you name it, that's fine. However, religious T-shirts/clothing should not feature profanity or graphic images. Schools should neither advocate any particular religion, nor should they hamper the individual's rights to express themselves individually. If it's not a hazard to physical safety, it should not be an issue.
Have you ever experienced a confrontation about wearing your jewlery in public? How did you handle the situation if so? No negative confrontations, really. People generally mistake my pentacle for a Star of David. Those in the know will pick it up, but that's about it.
Oh, and I also updated my userinfo with tons of choice linkage. Whaddya think?
Back to writing.
Do you wear any religious symbol jewelry/clothing? If so do you wear it openly in public? I generally wear my pentacle in public. It's small and simple, shiny silver, so it's not like I'm wearing an in-your-face pentacle hubcap around my neck. I used to wear a tiny goddess pendant that Anna gave me, and I still do when I'm around my dad's family because we're easing into the whole Wicca thing. Half of them are Baptist, the other half Catholic, so we're still working on the whole "a pentacle is not a symbol of Satan" thing.
How do you feel about the issue of wearing religious symbols in schools and how some young teens are forced to remove their religious fashions? The way I see it is this: a student should be able to wear whatever religious garment/symbol they choose, within reason. Crosses, stars of David, pentacles... you name it, that's fine. However, religious T-shirts/clothing should not feature profanity or graphic images. Schools should neither advocate any particular religion, nor should they hamper the individual's rights to express themselves individually. If it's not a hazard to physical safety, it should not be an issue.
Have you ever experienced a confrontation about wearing your jewlery in public? How did you handle the situation if so? No negative confrontations, really. People generally mistake my pentacle for a Star of David. Those in the know will pick it up, but that's about it.
Oh, and I also updated my userinfo with tons of choice linkage. Whaddya think?
Back to writing.