Hattix

Via any British news outlet you care to name, this story (BBC News) is making the rounds. It’s like we get one of these every month or so, some nutcase refuses to take off jewelry which they somehow associate with their favourite ghost in the sky and goes all lawyer happy about it.

Schools, in this case, have dress codes for a reason. That reason is to keep people equal. Now, flying in the face of equality comes this arrogant whelp who thinks she’s more equal than everyone else.

Being asked to take a steel bracelet off is not a bloody violation of your human rights you useless waste of oxygen.

A religion is not an excuse to break the rules. A religion is not a reason to grant exceptions. Funnily enough, Islam is quite good about this; A believer can be excused symbolism or even prayer if it would be unsafe or rules would prevent it. I don’t know enough about the Sikhs to know if they absolutely must wear a steel bracelet, but I sure doubt it.

What really got me was this hilarious quote from Miss. Headuparse’s lawyer: “Our great British traditions of religious tolerance and race equality have been rightly upheld today.”

I’m sorry? Treating someone specially because they’re a Sikh is somehow “tolerant” or “equal”? This means that treating the Jews specially during the Holocaust was also “tolerant” and “equal”, right?

I don’t care what your faith is. I don’t care if your ghost in the sky is bigger than anyone else’s ghost in the sky (or wherever their ghosts may be), you do not use it as a crutch, as an excuse, to get special treatment. Equality is a great thing, throwing a temper tantrum because you’re not special is just foolish.