If one reads the link in post #20, one quickly realizes that the boy wearing it to honor his brother...not for the glory of God, is a sacrilegious endeavor.
It seems to me there is much lost from this news article and I am tending to side with the police on this matter.
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Not so much what you say. He was wearing it because his brother told him it would be a protection to him. So while he is honoring his brothers dying wish for him to protect himself, he wears it for it’s religious value to protect him, it is a matter of using a tool to help increase his faith and awareness of who he is.
The cops are dead wrong on this and I hope they have to pay big.
You are 100% correct.
No matter what police, school officials, eminent scholars, obscure clerics, etc., say; no matter what 99.9% of people say is correct, the individual must be free to identify one’s belief.