[There's a class of Americans who want to punish ANYBODY who doesn't fit their ideal - I just don't see this kind of discrimination anywhere near where I live. They're nuts in the south. - Bozo]
By Travis Gettys
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:10 EDT
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The ACLU of Louisiana has come to the defense of a Rastafarian boy who has been suspended from school and forbidden to return until he cuts his dreadlocks.
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The boy was sent home from South Plaquemines High School when classes resumed Aug. 8 because his dreadlocks extended beyond the collar of his shirt, in apparent violation of the school dress code.
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After he returned to school the following week with his hair pinned up, school officials told the student his dreadlocks remained in violation.
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Rastafarians believe Leviticus 21:5 forbids them to cut their hair, and dreadlocks are central to their religious beliefs.
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"The wearing of dreadlocks for (the student) is akin to the wearing of a religious icon by another student," the ACLU said in a letter sent Monday to the Plaquemines Parish School Board.
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The student's mother provided a letter to the school superintendent from the 1st Church of Rastafar I that indicated the boy's family were members and explained the importance of dreadlocks to their faith.
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