Teenager Lydia Playfoot today lost her High Court challenge over a ban preventing her from wearing a Christian "purity ring". Sixteen-year-old Lydia Playfoot claimed the ban at the Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, was an "unlawful interference" with her right to express her Christian faith...Lydia said: "I am very disappointed by the decision this morning by the High Court not to allow me to wear my purity ring to school as an expression of my Christian faith not to have sex outside of marriage."
She said she believed the ruling "will mean that slowly, over time, people such as school governors, employers, political organisations and others will be allowed to stop Christians from publicly expressing and practising their faith".
She added: "Over two years ago, I was concerned at the number of teenagers who were catching sexually transmitted diseases, getting pregnant and/or having abortions...
Lydia is one of a group of Christians at the Millais School who wore the ring engraved with a Biblical verse as a sign of their belief in abstinence from sex until marriage. In court her lawyers claimed that her secondary school, which allows Muslim and Sikh students to wear headscarfs and religious bracelets, breached her human rights by preventing her from wearing the ring.
The school denied her claims, arguing that the purity ring is not an integral part of the Christian faith and contravenes its uniform policy...
The rest of this Daily Mail (U.K.) story is here with more about the judge's silly hypocrisy and more about Lydia's stirring Christian testimony.
