Nose piercings are actually a religious thing when it comes to....Muslims or Hindus, I'm trying to remember which. When a woman is married (in one of those two religions) she pierces her nose, learned this from a psych doctor after I said I liked her stud. Maybe the Godwad knows that and doesn't want Muslim/Hindi influences in the house. Or just considers body mod to be the work of the devil. I have a labret and a pentacle tattoo, I LOVE debating this stuff with Christians because the Bible DOES say not to mark or scar the flesh, but that's when in honour of the dead. Pagans (like myself) traditionally did that, so of course hypersensitive Godwads would try and forbid it. Remember, we call dance naked and covered in animal blood around a bonfire and get wasted and have nasty nasty orgies to hail Satan! ;D

*all -.- damn stubby thumbs!

He's using his religion as an excuse -- he's just ashamed that you are a hipster conformist who mindlessly does whatever the zeitgeist of the herd dictates to them.

And what about the part of his religion that teaches that a person's character is more important than their outward appearance? (Or doesn't his religion have that?)

sounds like you need to have a talk with your mom about the kind of people she finds acceptable to allow around her children.

I don't like piercings either but FYL.

Your mom's marrying a jerk. Nothing gives him the right to try and control you. If I were in your situation, I'd go out of my way to spite him.

Tell him its a nose stud and doesn't hinder any potential relationship with a deity. Tell him to lose his watch, chain if he wears one and wear better fitting pants because that belt has metal on it, which isn't allowed.

I hope he didn't say that in the very house you call home. If so I would have told him to get the freak out of your house.

And did your mother have nothing to say about this?