[Asphalt]

"Despite the suspension, Herndon plans to wear the makeup when he returns to school next week."

Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.

[Tax-chick]

Well put. His repeating the grade is another clue.

[dead]

Herndon says his black lipstick and red eye makeup express the Wiccan religious beliefs he shares with his mother, a priestess in the neo-pagan faith.

I’d like to start some sort of financial market where you can buy and sell futures on other people’s coming heroin addiction.

[Sax]

Great logic dude. /sarcasm. If it works, maybe I'll send my boy to school with a make-up:

[Izzy Dunne]

Five years of junior high school down the drain.

[DoctorMichael]

.....and then we'll get these little clowns walking in looking like David Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust period.

[Thrusher]

Hmm, I see the ACLU arriving in town within the next thirty minutes and a massive lawsuit already being drafted...

[Lunatic Fringe]

Herndon, who is repeating his second year at the school

Sounds like he should be more concerned with passing algebra...

[ruiner]

That's right, I keep forgetting that there are absolutely no differences between women, men, children, and adults.

"If I can't wear makeup," he said, "then the girls or the staff can't wear makeup."

[edpc]

"My son shouldn't change the way he is," Wallace said.

Well.....there's the root of the problem.

There was a similar story about a Wiccan a few years back in MD. A girl was suspended for casting a spell on another student (that's assault, I suppose). The girl's mother went on TV to defend her daughter's rights to practice her beliefs. At the end of the story, it turns out the "mother" was actually her biological father and a trans-sexual. Is it any wonder these kids are strange?

[Trampled by Lambs]

I saw this kid on TV news this morning.. Bright red mohawk, black lipstick and some sort of evil clown make up. He looked like the illegitimate offspring of Chris Farley, Marlyn Manson and Twisted Sister.

[antiRepublicrat]

I know a lot of Wiccans and other pagans, and none of them wear makeup as part of their religion. A few do it because that's their personal style (more of a goth thing), but it's not religious-based.

But this is what you get when you demand privilege for the Christian religion. Other religions will want to get on board and get that privilege too.

[Born Conservative]

[NaughtiusMaximus]

And what do we burn besides witches?

MORE WITCHES!!

[longtermmemmory]

His mother always wanted a girl.

Mom is still converting him.

[dc-zoo]

A product of "progressive" parenting. Liberalism gone wild.

[DannyTN]

"Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed."

No, but consider the source.

[Old Professer]

"My son shouldn't change the way he is,"

The words of a mother who made the way her son is.

Some people just go around picking a fight, I guess.

[antiRepublicrat]

BTW, I personally have no problems with Christianity, and never otherwise degrade it with claims of Jesus Cult and cannibalism. It's only an attempt to show these dangerous fundamentalists what they're doing. It's probably an impossible attempt though, as their brainwashing is probably better than that of the Palestinian kids who blow themselves up.

[Dead Corpse]

Could be worse...

[karnage]

Mom is obviously a mope. Makeup is for girls.