Jeffrey Weiss, at The Dallas Morning News religion blog, on the reappropriation of religious symbols:

Now to the rosary, a Catholic string of prayer beads that is used to guide the faithful through a particular series of prayers. But for whatever reason, some violent American gangs have taken the rosary as one of their marks. Some schools have banned students from carrying or wearing them. And so we have this story in today’s DMN about a student in the Seagoville school district who faces potential punishment for wearing her rosary. The story by Dan X. McGraw makes it clear this incident is murky: The student says she doesn’t consider herself to be Catholic currently and a rosary isn’t supposed to be worn as jewelry. But it’s still an interesting conflict between original purpose and what others have turned it into.

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