{"id":9273,"date":"2010-07-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/13\/religious-items-as-the-new-gang-symbols\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:00:00","slug":"religious-items-as-the-new-gang-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/13\/religious-items-as-the-new-gang-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Items as the New Gang Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/index.php?\/rnstext\/rosaries_a_popular_gang_tool_but_not_ususally_for_prayer\/\">www.religionnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, June 8, 2010: When seventh-grader Raymond Hosier was suspended for wearing rosary beads to school late last month, civil rights groups rushed to his defense. &#8220;Without question, the continuing action taken by the school district in punishing Raymond for wearing a rosary to school violates the constitutional rights of our client,&#8221; argued Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Officials say the no-rosary-beads rule is necessary to &#8220;protect students from violence and gangs.&#8221; They have a point, according to gang experts. After schools began banning gang-related bandanas, clothing, and hairstyles about a decade ago, students have turned to rosaries as a subtle and often First-Amendment-protected way to signal gang allegiance.<\/p>\n<p>Jared Lewis, a former police officer in California who worked in public schools, said &#8220;You are often dealing with gang members who have no inkling or cares about the religious significance of the rosary beads,&#8221; said Lewis, who now runs Know Gangs, a training group for law enforcement officials. &#8220;They are just trying to skirt around school rules under the guise of a religious symbol.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.religionnews.com UNITED STATES, June 8, 2010: When seventh-grader Raymond Hosier was suspended for wearing rosary beads to school late,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}