Posted on 11/01/2008 7:15:21 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
A Paramus middle school student was sent home Friday after he came to school dressed up as Jesus for Halloween.
For a few hours, Alex Woinski was the messiah of West Brook Middle School, but like the real Jesus, Woinski was condemned, so to speak.
"Sort of like a new remake of what supposedly happened," Woinski told CBS 2.
Decked out in sandals, a robe, fake beard and thorns, the 13-year-old joined 500 other students at his school's Halloween celebration, and on this day, he was the chosen one - to go home.
"It was offensive to some students," Woinski said, when asked what school officials told him the reason for being sent home was.
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The school is West Brook Middle School on Roosevelt Blvd., Paramus NJ 07652. Principal in the video is Joan Broie. She looks like a wacko; I think she has other reasons for disliking Jesus and it's not just about this being a distraction.
Oh, witches and warlocks are okay though.
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Just think - if he’d dressed up like Mohammed, he’d be dead.
Little nuts don’t drop far from the tree!!!
This was a long haired kid dressing as Jesus. A long haired 13 old most likely not a good Christian. People found this offensive. I’m thinking this long hair was mocking Jesus and that’s why it was offensive. It was offensive to good Christians.
Did you watch the video?
Was he really dressing up as Jesus to honor him or to treat him more like a cartoon character who makes a good costume? When I read that students were offended, my first thought was because someone was treating Jesus like some imaginary dress up creature. Not that the image of Jesus was offensive, just the occasion the student was using to portray him.
Well I dress like a witch or warlock everyday, I’m a pagan, but I don’t beleive the school should have sent him home, first off is freedom of speech, then freedom of religion. I’ll imagine that you are right, they probably let the kids that were scantly clad like hookers or the one’s that were dressed as gang banging thugs were able to stay. Just show’s how the school system is under the control of the leftist, nazi style thinking.
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From the article:
Woinski has developed an interest in religion. His mother is Catholic and his father is Jewish. He recently celebrated his Bar Mitzvah and his also studying Bible scripture.
As a Christian, I found it offensive. Jesus is not a Halloween character. Do I think the kid did it to be offensive? Nope.
I didn’t know long hair was a sin. Didn’t Jesus have long hair? If Christians wanted to be more Christ-like, shouldn’t we all have long hair? (I’m picking on you, I myself am nearly bald.)
Hard to say what his motivation was. And most likely other kids could misread it and react badly from both sides. But it SOUNDS as if they found it interesting and attractive, and he was drawing a lot of attention. And it SOUNDS as if the woman who sent him home was a typical Separation of Church and Stater.
My picture is a bunch of kids crowding around and saying, “Hey, Alex, you look great! We always said you looked like Jesus with that long hair!”
And the teacher flipped out.
You could argue that that was blasphemous, but if it makes kids think about Jesus and if it makes Alex think about Him, who knows what it might lead to?
Education is **never** religiously neutral. It is impossible. It is axiomatic.
So....When government forces children into its religiously non-neutral atheistic schools and forces citizens to pay for this abomination, there is no freedom of religion!
Boy do I agree with you except for one thing. The principal is a woman and my hunch is she may be a lesbian.
Kids dress up as bible characters all the time. I don’t think there is anything wrong with a kid doing this. People dress up as Jesus for passion plays, etc.
I’m a Christian too. I agree that he didn’t mean to be offensive. You make a good point about treating Jesus as a character. I’ll have to consider that.
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