Halloween

November 1, 2013

Thought Crime: Student Pulled From Class Because He Dressed Like Jesus For Halloween

Student Has His 1st Amendment Violated

Author: King David

When Marshon Sanders mother Angenetta Frison told him to dress up as someone inspirational, Marshon chose to dress up as Jesus Christ.  Marshon thought nothing was wrong and was showing who had inspired him in his life, but Marshon was pulled from class quickly on Thursday.  Marshon went on to say “I wanted to be Jesus because I just got baptized and so I felt like it, why not?” Marshon says of his costume choice. “He’s the most influential person in my life.”

According to Angenetta, it was because some teachers found his costume to be offensive and within the first 15 minutes of his class he was pulled out and taken to the schools office. Marshon went on to say this about his visit to the office; “She tells me that, um, my costume was offensive and I was promoting religion, which I wasn’t at all,”. This young man has every right to promote his religion if he feels like it. The administrators of the school said shortly before the school let out that “We initially were concerned that the costume could be offensive to religious sensibilities. Upon further review, we realized the student did not intend to be offensive.” The question at hand is who thought they had a right to even question his freedom of expression? Who has given anyone this authority?

Here is a picture of Marshon in his Halloween costume
Jesus pulled from class
Marshon was later told that he could put the costume back on but he declined the offer.

School spokeswoman Melinda Vajdic said the costume could be interpreted as poking fun or perpetuating a “religious stereotype.” Even if Marshon was trying to stereotype a certain religion that is well within his rights as an American. “Costumes trivialize,” Vajdic said. “I’m sure that wasn’t his intent, but we want to maintain a culture of mutual respect.”

They go on to say that two teachers reported his costume as offensive. Welcome to the new America. We have have to wonder if Marshon would have dressed up like Satan or an Islam leader if anything would have been said to him?