"Jesus had long hair. Why can't my son?"

examiner.com ^ | August 25, 2010 | Réne Girard

[jackspyder]

[utherdoul]

Whenever I see a man with long hair I want to set him on fire.

[Genoa]

Me: Jesus had long hair.
Dad: Yep, and Jesus walked everywhere he went, too.

[dockkiller]

My brother was sent home for wearing sandals to a christian school when we were kids. They sent him home with a note that he should try to be more “Christ-like”.

The irony was not missed, even to very young teens.

[muawiyah]

So, here's a kid with long hair. You ever try to get in a good fist fight wrestling match on the playground with long hair?

The mother is obviously IGNANT!

[bgill]

Every year, parents and students are given a student handbook which they must agree to and sign. She and junior don’t have a leg to stand on.

[Lurker]

Tell this idiot mom that when her kid can walk on water like Jesus he can have his hair long like Jesus.

[Bosco]

"Jesus had long hair. Why can't my son?"

Because your son isn't Jesus.

[Dilbert San Diego]

the way the courts are, they probably have a sex discrimination case, since the girls are allowed to have longer hair than are boys.

Heck he could say he is a “trans-gendered” girl in a boy’s body and get exempt because he really feels he is a girl.

Does the school have a hair regulation for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students? Do they only talk about boys and girls? Are they behind the times?

[ClearCase_guy]

Rules are sometimes arbitrary and unfair.
If you are in an environment where you can vote on rule changes, you should campaign for what you want.
If the rules are things that others decide for you, then you have two choices:

1) Deal with it.
2) Leave.

[Fiji Hill]

Jesus had long hair

How would he know? The Bible provides no description of his hair style.

[HerrBlucher]

So if Johnny brought a lunch pail full of grasshoppers to eat at school, that should be ok too?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I really don’t care what these parents and their kids do, but all the same, Jesus did not have long hair.

“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?” (I Cor. 11:14)

Jesus did all things well, certainly nothing shameful, so it stands to reason that He did not have long hair like a woman’s. The “long haired Jesus” is an artefact of Renaissance painters depicting Him as they themselves appeared, it has no basis in biblical fact.

[marron]

On the one hand I’m surprised schools are enforcing hair codes.

On the other hand, I highly encourage people to get their kids out of public school anyway, and educate them yourself. So, if they want their kid in public school, then teach him to obey the rules. If they don’t want to follow the rules there, then send him to a private school somewhere that doesn’t have the same rules. Or homeschool him.

[evets]

Jesus did not have long hair.

[brytlea]

Jesus probably didn’t wear his hair long, but I don’t see what one has to do with the other anyway. If the school has a dress code, he will probably have to follow it. There are far more important things to stand up for.

[brytlea]

Excellent post.

[a fool in paradise]

Kenneth's mother, Marsha Wisnoski, tells why Kenneth has not had his hair cut: "He's my son, and I want to teach him to stand up for what he believes in ..."

Pick your battles. As idiotic as having a President who hides his birth certificate.

[CT-Freeper]

My mother had a similar reply:

When you can walk on water, then maybe we'll consider giving you a pass on the hair thing.

[Drango]

Jesus was cool. Your son is a dork. Any other questions?