Hide Gangs Behind the Cross February 27, 2008
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School Suspends Teens for Wearing Crucifixes
ALBANY, Ore. — A pair of Albany teenagers suspended for “gang-related behavior” because they were wearing crucifixes say they were only wearing gifts from their mothers.
Jaime Salazar, 14, his friend Marco Castro, 16, were suspended from South Albany High School recently after they refused to put away the crucifixes they were wearing around their necks.
Salazar said Principal Chris Equinoa saw his necklace and told him to put it away. “I was like, why?” Salazar said. “He says it’s related to gangs.”
Salazar said he argued and was sent to the office. Instead, he went home. Later, he received a note saying he had been suspended for five days for “defiance and gang-related behavior.”
Like most people, I chalked this up to the pervasive anti-Christianity in public schools, and I also came up with an alternate explanation that the school’s administration sadistically used any excuse when they couldn’t make these two students do what they wanted.
But Jamie Allman this morning informs us that more than forty gangs, mostly Hispanic, are using crosses adorned with colored beads as gang symbols. As it turns out, Messrs. Salazar and Castro’s crucifixes did have light blue beads, indicating a gang.
If we had a news media that would explain these things to us, then most of us would have arrived at the right conclusion to begin with.
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