Source: Journal Cretian
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?article6816
A Pennsylvania school district is being sued for prohibiting a fourth-grader from wearing a Jesus costume to his school’s Halloween parade and party. A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the ten-year-old, who attended Willow Hill Elementary School in the Abingdon School District in the city of Glenside.
The complaint alleges that Willow Hill Elementary officials ordered all students to wear a costume on Halloween, telling the children they would otherwise be "isolated" from the school’s scheduled parade and party. Since the plaintiff and his mother have objections to pagan elements of the holiday based on their Christian beliefs, the boy chose to dress up as Jesus Christ.
On Oct. 31, however, Willow Hill principal Dr. Patricia Whitmire told the fourth-grader’s mother that his costume would violate the school’s religion policy and required that the youngster remove his “crown of thorns” and not identify himself as Jesus. According to the boy’s attorney, Matt Bowman with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), the school’s response constituted religious intolerance.
"The school principal censored the student and told him he couldn’t be ‘Jesus Christ’ at this Halloween party that had costumes of every other kind - disgusting and scary and supernatural," Bowman says. "And it’s patently ridiculous," he asserts, "to say that in this context ... you can’t have a Jesus costume. It’s ridiculous, and it’s yet another demonstration of how hostile the public schools have become to Christianity.”