The Rosary is a Gang Symbol?

[Praxeas]

Officials at a Colorado high school reportedly confiscated rosary beads from a student, claiming the religious necklace is affiliated with gangs and disruptive to learning.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/15/colorado-school-seizes-rosary-beads-from-student-calls-them-gang-symbol/?test=latestnews#ixzz26bIPivt6

[Sam]

I have heard that wearing a rosary as a necklace is a gang symbol.

Of course the rosary goes back much farther than modern gangs in the U.S.

It is my understanding that the 150 beads represent the 150 Psalms and was a way for simple folks who could not read the psalms or who had not memorized the psalms to pray 150 prayers by only memorizing the Apostles' Creed, the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Glory Be." The Rosary was an easy way to tell or count the prayers so they knew when they had prayed the 150 prayers.



The Hail Mary is based on Luke 1:28, 42-43

[houston]

Yeah. Old news. Some kids are wearing them to be cool.

[Dordrecht]

Some wear big crosses to be cool.

[Sam]

Some wear big crosses to be cool.

remember when the singer Madonna was wearing a crucifix because she thought "a naked man on a cross is cool"?

[Jay]

We live in an insane and disgusting world. I look for the RCC to eventually yield to pressure and allow in everything that the culture demands. And because they accept the dictates of tradition, councils, and the pope to be on equal par with Scripture, most will walk content that their leaders are leading them correctly.

[houston]

I look for the RCC to eventually yield to pressure and allow in everything that the culture demands.

Not gonna happen. The Catholic church does not bow to pressure. Pressure bows to the Catholic church.

[Jay]

It will never be said that they bowed to pressure, but the next pope will likely be the one who will change many of the policies that are currently in place concerning homosexuality and abortion. This will be especially true if the next pope is French, British, or from the US.

[houston]

It will never be said that they bowed to pressure, but the next pope will likely be the one who will change many of the policies that are currently in place concerning homosexuality and abortion. This will be especially true if the next pope is French, British, or from the US.

Not going to happen.

[Jay]

Why not, they have already broken every commandment over the years. Why not just institutionalize it? There have already been warnings sounded by the evangelicals that the RCC could be endanger of transferring to the other side of many of these issues due to the heavy pressure that they are under from the government. They are losing on gay adoption, gay marriage, abortion, and government mandated contraception initiatives. They will compromise and do it by saying that they will work against these things from the other side, while yielding to expediency.