A high school student who was told he couldn’t hang the Ten Commandments on his locker has decided he’ll hang them on himself.

Chris Cotelesse has been wearing a homemade sandwich board bearing the commandments in the hallways of Wilmington High School since school officials took the piece of paper from his locker three weeks ago.

"I want the word of God in schools. I want people to see it. And if I can’t hang it on the walls or the lockers, I’ll hang it on whatever I can, which is me," Cotelesse, a senior, told the New Castle News for a story Tuesday.

Cotelesse and some of his friends originally posted the Decalogue in their lockers as part of National Ten Commandments Day in November. They remained there for about two months before principal William Lyon told the students to take them down.

Cotelesse returned the following day with the commandments taped to his shirt, and two days later with the sandwich board, which is made out of cardboard and string.

Despite his opposition to the Ten Commandments being posted in lockers or anywhere else in the school, Lyon said he has no problem with Cotelesse’s ready-to-wear religious statement as long as it isn’t disruptive.

"I have a lot of respect for Chris. I respect any student who’s willing to stand up for his religious beliefs, no matter what they are," Lyon said. "But using the school itself, the school facilities, to post religious writings, that’s just something the school couldn’t allow to happen."

Some students have hailed Cotelesse as a rebel; he dismissed it.

"I’m not rebelling against Mr. Lyon. He told me not to put them on my locker, and I’m not doing that," Cotelesse said. "But I’m not going to rebel against God either, which is more important."

Cotelesse said he plans to wear the sandwich board for the remainder of the school year -- including when he walks across the stage to graduate.

Meanwhile, he’s getting mixed reviews from fellow students.

Some tell him not too nicely to lose the sandwich board, others support him and some say they have nothing against the Ten Commandments, but he shouldn’t be wearing them.