Digital Areopagus

SEAGOVILLE  --  A Dallas-area high school student says she's been forbidden from wearing her rosary to school because it's considered a gang symbol.

Now I've heard of gang members wearing different colors and different types of sports hats but never religious items.

"I went to school, walked through the metal detectors and they told me to take it off," said the teenager. "I asked them why and they said because it's gang-related."

If this is true it's very disturbing for someone to take a symbol of Our Lady and turn it into a symbol of crime.