Posted on 12/23/2015 10:29:58 PM PST by TigerClaws
I’m reading an interesting book suggested by another FR member:
UNHOLY ALLIANCE: RADICAL ISLAM AND THE AMERICAN LEFT.
Eye opening.
No to belabor the point, if I got an email telling me my child was going to get any kind of a tattoo, I would be racing to the dictionary and a phone.
Was the school “acting stupidly?” Yes, of course.
But the parents are responsible for protecting their children.
Finally, my girls would get henna “tattoos” at the beach every summer.
They would last a couple of weeks.
This much outrage over a temporary tattoo? Wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be a fake story designed to make conservatives look dumb. Freaking out over henna is pretty darn silly.
Apparently separation of church and state only applies to Christians.
On many levels, including that of common sense, this henna skin marking activity was inappropriate for a school. All things Eastern are held up as the cat’s meow, while things Judaeo-Christian are considered out of bounds for the public school. I don’t see public school classes having kids do “Ash Wednesday Multiculti” forehead art projects at school. If they tried that, what a howl there would be from the Left.
Ah, reminds of high school parties where we would pull out the permanent markers on the first guy that passed out. Our art was full of swastikas and pentagrams. It was extremely fun and annoying at the same time. We all got tagged at one time or another. It takes a few days to wash those permanent markers off skin too. These henna tattoos are nothing even approaching the level of innocent high school fun. This sounds like a a soccer mom got all bent out of shape because she’s ignorant or stupid.
No it is not stupid. It matters not that there is no spiritual significance. This is wrong. Suppose your child came home dyed blue? Would that be OK with you?
Even though you think there is no religious intent, some people believe that a person's body is their holy temple not to be defiled in any way.
1 Corinthians 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?1 Corinthians 3:17 — If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
On a more personal level, I cannot even stand to accidentally get an ink mark on my hand. I would be very upset if a teacher put a tattoo on my child. An impressionable child may be influenced to think it is acceptable to get a "tramp stamp" tattoo as a teenager.
They never accidentally promote anything Christian there. They sure do with every other crap religion.
It is not by accident.
No it is not stupid. It matters not that there is no spiritual significance. This is wrong. Suppose your child came home dyed blue? Would that be OK with you?
Even though you think there is no religious intent, some people believe that a person's body is their holy temple not to be defiled in any way.
1 Corinthians 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?1 Corinthians 3:17 — If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
On a more personal level, I cannot even stand to accidentally get an ink mark on my hand. I would be very upset if a teacher put a tattoo on my child. An impressionable child may be influenced to think it is acceptable to get a "tramp stamp" tattoo as a teenager.
Good thing the girl was not baptized, then the FBI would be involved.
not exactly a tattoo if you could wash it off. At first I was concerned. Tattooing a child without parent permission is definately wrong, but its just paint that could be washed off so not a big deal
I guess I have a couple of questions and a comment or two:
1) Were boys subjected to the same thing?
2) Were any of the children asked if they wanted them beforehand.
Comment 1: I’m not specifically aware of any close link between Hinduism and Islam. I’d think they are quite different.
Comment 2: I’m quite sure that if Christianity as a whole had a social tradition of marking bodies with henna dye, there wouldn’t even have been an article about this because it wouldn’t have happened.
Comment 3: The parents should have been asked for permission beforehand. It amounts to temporary disfigurement of a child in my opinion.
The first thing the parents need to do is take their kids out of those schools and homeschool.
I’m wondering how long it will take before the law suit begins. Be sure to go for the throat when it does.
Nothing should be applied to anyone’s child by public schools without permission. Any substance that they come in contact with should be non toxic and should be readily removable using soap and water available on the premises. Anything outside of that should be investigated and staff performance should be documented and corrected.
No need to break it down any further than that.
I get your point that this is not a big deal in terms of the temporary benign nature of the tattoos, but this is not a bunch of drunken guys having a little fun ... it’s a public school and the administration should have required the teacher to obtain permission slips from the parents before marking up the kids. Just makes sense to me to do that.
I had never heard of them either and I am 71.
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Not too far behind you, I’m 70 and never heard of them either.
Henna can cause chemical burns.
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